Leardership is influencing and directing the performance of a group members towards achieving the goals of the organisation.
Leadership is the main factor influencing the success of takeovers and mergers because Staff who has strong leadership skills will motivate and insipre other employees to achieve the goals and objectives of the firm. This is well illustrated in the acquisition made by Kellogg’s. One of the key factors influencing the succes of Kellogg’s severals acqusition, was The CEO John a Bryant’s leadership skills as, he held direct responsibility for managing the planning and execution teams for the integration of Keeble Food Company in 2001, this has been a success takeovers in the short term and the long term as he has created many different synergies whose revenue synergy which was just under $4 billion more. This has been made because Kellogg’s is driven by a democratic leadership approach as the company engage discussions with their employees before taking them implanted communication programm to empower his workforce. The business believes in the value of the their employees and therefore rewards them for how well they perform. This allows the firm to have a very motivated workforce and thus a very productive one, it also inspires them to work harmoniously with Keeble Food Company ’s employees and culture and produce synergies. Futhermore, this was the case in the Pringle’s acquisition by Kellog’s. Originaly Procter & Gamble wanted to sell Pringle’s to Diamonds but due to account’s problems, the deal failed. Kellogg’s responded very quickly to that and made an offer to the American company. This show that the CEO of Kellogg’s has reacted very rapidly as he saw an huge opportunity for his firm to growth externally as this merger would help to achieve Kellogg’s