Originally Posted by
Route66
Just an FYI who wrote this:
The arbitrators didn't use it in the US Airways-American merger and they weren't going to use it in your merger. They won't use it in ANY merger because they don't and they won't understand it. They're going to march to the beat of their own drummer. Remember, they're lawyers, not pilots.
Good or bad, the future is what it will be. Good luck.
Unfortunately, you are most likely correct.
It was encouraging to see the incremental move toward data analysis when the very basic hybrid list construction technique was introduced several mergers ago (actually re-introduced from long-forgotten mergers from the past), but we seem to be stuck there.
To move forward, the profession would have to:
1. unlink the integration process/lawyers connection as much as possible
2. focus on how integrated lists actually affect careers in the future vs. how we mechanically construct lists
2. actually want to be fair to each other
None of those requirements are likely to be realized due to entrenched ways of thinking/selfish interests.
But nothing will change or be improved if the current process is permitted to remain in place, unchallenged, as future merging groups go through it again and again. The tool is in place for those who wish to use it.