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Thoughts on growing mid-market companies.

The mid-market transition: Executive roles, activity portfolios and ‘role peeling’

…. Growth company boards spend lots of time thinking about how to get the best performance from existing executives and which new roles may be needed to cope with expansion. Bandwidth and skill constraints are weighed up against budgets, and the trade-offs between those factors are debated.

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How easy is it to predict the success of CEOs and FDs?

The importance of CEOs and FDs to the success (or failure) of private equity backed companies is relatively self-evident. But to what extent can we glean useful clues from data regarding incumbent or candidate executives before either doing additional assessment work or making a decision?...

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The mid-market transition: If you want to make something significantly better, make it into a “thing”

…. How do we get important things done in growth companies? Take the examples of Sales and Operations which are at the core of most businesses. For starters, we create dedicated functions and populate them with people who have relevant skills and manage them through senior managers with relevant experience.

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Building value with less sweat and blood: the role of catalytic intervention

…. Some months ago, I argued that formal value creation methodologies – created to address the problems of a less favourable investing environment – could be self-defeating unless balanced by greater attention to how teams and organisations build value in practice (which Catalysis refers to as value enablement.

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