How a marriage is similar or different to a merger:
• Usually, both people in a marriage bring assets (car, stereo, house, an
income) into the marriage so their combined wealth is greater than their
individual wealth. In the same way a merged company will have more
assets than the individual companies had had.
• A newly-married couple have to learn to live with each other and work
out the best way to do things as a couple. One person might be good
at housework while the other might be better at doing the household
accounts. In the same way employees in a merged company have to learn
to live with each other and accept that there may be different ways of
doing things in the newly-merged company.