In this issue, Mark Stevenson, president and COO of Life Technologies, discusses dealing with two tough issues facing any leader in an M&A situation: cultural integration and building high-performance teams, beginning at the top. Howard M. Guttman takes aim at a rarely discussed situation: what to do when a team is preparing to fire its leader. And Guttman's Mark Landsberg draws lessons from a client intent on adding speed and agility to a lumbering organization. All this in a 5-minute read.

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