Private Equity’s Math Problem
Private equity has a math problem: too many PE firms and not enough companies to buy. “Today’s truly hot commodities are America’s unheralded mid-market businesses, specifically those we call the “Upper Middle Market”—those businesses between $50 million and $1 billion in revenue ….There are an estimated 18,000 private equity firms in the U.S., up nearly 60 […]
Best Blogs
General BusinessVistage Research and Insights: Webinars and articles for the C-Level and those who aspire to it. (Available to all, not just Members).Chief Executive Magazine: Great, short articles for CEOs.“No Mercy, No Malice”: Many want to be thought leaders; few are. Dr. Scott Galloway is. Thoughtful (no malice), researched commentary but without filters (no mercy).Take 5 […]
Econ Recon:
“We’re not out of the woods yet” says ITR Economics’ Brian Beaulieu find out why he says that as he looks at recent economic data and warns that ‘people aren’t liking what they’re seeing about the economy.” Check out his latest “Fedwatch” for more. Tariffs or Taxes? During the campaign, President Trump made the remarkable suggestion that the IRS […]
The Art of Priority
We spend so much time and energy figuring out how to do things, but maybe we should be figuring out what ought to be done. In a one-page article former Navy Seal Andrew Pence writes that ”Your time and energy are finite, so it is imperative to have absolute clarity on what things are important versus those that are simply […]
Legal Favoritism
Vistage Speaker Hunter Lott Do your employees accuse you of “playing favorites?” Vistage Speaker and employment law expert Hunter Lott says it’s both legal and even ok in the right circumstances. Check out this “Take 5 with Hunter Lott Video”: “Workplace Favoritism.’
A Thinking Took Kit
One way we are different from the animals is that we can “think about thinking.” That sounds easy until you try it and discover that you don’t have framework for thinking about your own thinking …or helping your team think about their thought processes. A recent short HBR article suggests that when leaders say “‘Person X really […]
An Iphone Walks Into a Bar
The late Steve Jobs was not known for his sense of humor…and he could be a very difficult person to work for. But he appreciated humor and on occasion could employ it to significant effect as a leader. Can you? A short article from Inc Magazine recounts Jobs’ extremely effective use of humor on January 9, 2007, when […]
Best Blogs
General BusinessVistage Research and Insights: Webinars and articles for the C-Level and those who aspire to it. (Available to all, not just Members).Chief Executive Magazine: Great, short articles for CEOs.“No Mercy, No Malice”: Many want to be thought leaders; few are. Dr. Scott Galloway is. Thoughtful (no malice), researched commentary but without filters (no mercy).Take […]
Econ Recon:
Time is Money…and so much more: It’s been said that time is the resource we cannot buy more of….and to the extent that economics is the science of the allocation of scarce resources, economist Brian Wesbury is well placed to share some wisdom. I In his latest “Three on Thursday” one page blog post, he looks at who […]
Something Old, Something Reconfigured
Creating something truly new to build a business upon is hard. It takes real imagination to imagine what hasn’t been imagined before! Fortunately, many great fortunes have been made by rethinking a business that is well established or in decline. Examples are Ubers disrupting taxis, Airbnb invading the hotel market, the minicomputer (remember Digital Equipment?) disrupting the large mainframe […]
