By Brian Hindo
BusinessWeek, Feb. 19 '06
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Danaher also isn't afraid to swing the ax; it has, at times, bought certain product lines and shuttered the rest of a company. "Those guys have a very well-defined model of how to do M&A," says Jim McTaggart, founder of strategy consulting firm Marakon Associates, now part of Trinsum Group. "They do the strategy well, they price [deals] in a disciplined manner, and they integrate these things superbly."