Truth 51Focus on the Big Grapes on the Grapevine

My manager had just acquired a large organization and was beginning the process of integrating it into the existing organization. Through this integration process, it had leaked out that one of the managers in the new organization would be replaced with one of the managers from the existing organization. About four weeks went by between the leak and the actual announcement. During the four-week period there was a significant amount of stress for both organizations because of the impending management changes and a tremendous amount of grapevine speculation about what would happen. The drop-off in productivity was significant because many were concerned that their projects and work would be put ...

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