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If your company is acquired, you must immediately forget about "us" and "them," executive coach Marshall Goldsmith advises on Harvard Business Online. "You are now part of 'them' - the old 'us' no longer exists. They can do whatever they want to do. Once you make peace with this fact, your life will be a lot easier," he says.
Accept that you are now working for a different company, and that your previous work history doesn't count. You may well be starting over, and need to learn what the new bosses want - and what new resources and opportunities they offer you. Look for positives in the company that acquired yours, which has to have some smarts or its leaders wouldn't be in control now. At the same time, read the tea leaves: If it looks like there will be some jobs chopped in the wake of the deal, start looking for another job, as people with the firm longer might have an edge.
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