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Strategy, Private equity ANTHEA VIDLER Strategy, Private equity ANTHEA VIDLER

The necessity of mastering the vital few

Most of us are familiar with the Pareto Principle, often referred to as the 80:20 rule. The idea, as captured in the graphic below is that a few activities are disproportionately responsible for a large majority of results. The implication, if we can identify the valuable few and take action to deliver them, is that we can achieve substantially better outcomes…

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Private equity ANTHEA VIDLER Private equity ANTHEA VIDLER

Our investments to support your investing

Because 2020 let us work with some investor friends more than others, I thought it might be helpful to briefly summarise the ways in which the Catalysis team has been honing its ability to provide you with what we believe has become the most agile and insightful source of support for mid-market investors around management…

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Private equity, Teams and Organisations ANTHEA VIDLER Private equity, Teams and Organisations ANTHEA VIDLER

Why you are spending more time dealing with non-financial issues (and why that is likely to continue)

It is not surprising, that with so much going on in the news at the moment, we tend to stay focused on coping with the short term disruptions we are faced with: a second wave of Covid, the messy economic environment and the unpredictable implications of Brexit…

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