The Strength to Change: Transforming a Business For the 21st Century (Penguin business) - Hardcover

This is the story of the merger of the Halifax and the Leeds, two of the largest building societies in Britain and their courageous and ambitious decision to convert the combined society into a public company. This was courageous because it was bound to attract a great deal of criticism for abandoning the concept of mutuality and weakening the building society movement, and ambitious because of the sheer scale of the task. The Strength to Change tells the remarkable story of one of the largest and most successful mergers in business history.

Peter Pugh was educated at Oundle and Cambridge, where he read history and has written more than 30 books on both British and overseas business. He is managing director of Icon Books. He is married, has three sons and lives in Duxford, Cambridge.