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Private Equity – Understanding the Portfolio Management Team
Private Equity - People Strategies for Better Exits Private equity has made an enormous contribution to the economy over the past 20 years. But competition is getting stronger and the environment is no longer as target-rich as it used to be. To keep delivering high...
De-risking PE with Portfolio Team Analytics.
A formula to deliver exit after perfect exit. PE firms that deliver a top quartile performance in one fund often repeat the process. In fact according to Bain & Co a PE firm that excels with its first fund has a greater chance of replicating that success with the...
Private Equity – Making the Investment Secure
Private Equity – Making the Investment Secure An industry where it pays not to be wrong. When there are millions of dollars at stake, not to mention careers and livelihoods, it’s fairly important to have a close handle on things. But there’s still one facet of the PE...
Psychometrics – how accurate are they?
What's the problem with a free or cheap psychometric? The importance of a career-enhancing, 3D integrated intellect scan is paramount.It’s vital to get the whole picture. Popular psychology tools such as behavioral psychometrics give only a partial picture and can be...
The Team Dashboard for Private Equity that makes reading people easy.
The Team Dashboard for Private Equity that makes reading people easy.Makes reading people as easy as reading a balance sheet. Private Equity and Venture Capital professionals have a tougher job than most CEOs or COOs. Whereas most business leaders have spent years...
Recruit Responsibly and Become Attractive to Investors
A new investment mega-trend is pushing companies to improve recruitment methods. Over the last 20 years or so a new mega-trend has emerged in the hard-nosed world of investing. This is known as Environment, Sustainability and Governance (ESG) and is basically all...
Method Teaming as a Turnaround Tool in Private Equity
Abstract In the early stages of a recent corporate turnaround, the turnaround manager chose a different path to assembling his turnaround team. Specifically, the manager recognized the usual process of one-on-one interviews for assembling turnaround teams was too...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise achieves sales success with Method Teaming®
Scientific teaming solution helps tech giant repower sales division. The Fortune 50 hardware and services provider has re-invented itself yet again. Appropriately, it has used a hi-tech formula, this time about people and talent, to transform and revitalize its...
The Résumé and Interview Are Failing Young People
Our best and brightest who are coming onto the jobs market this summer, either out of school or out of college, possess formidable strengths and talents. Right out of the box, as it were, they could be extremely valuable assets to any business or organization. They...
Pulling Together: Smart Collaboration is the Game Changer
In Patrick Lencioni’s best-selling book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (2002), he observes that “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.” In today’s...
Psychometric Tests, Crystal Ball Gazing – and a Better Option!
She based her career on a single behavioral psychometric. Now she's suffering in the wrong job. Would you pay $75 for completely inaccurate information about your career? Many people do. There are plenty of cheap tests available on the internet which offer to help...
Private Equity: Knowing the Executive Team.
When evaluating an opportunity, the target’s leadership team should be your first priority. Can you see whether it works or not, both at-a-glance and in-depth? If you can’t, you’re investing blind. You’ve profiled the customers, inspected the balance sheet, checked...
Strategies to beat Coronavirus #2. Knee Jerk Management versus Long Haul Leadership.
Too many people have been cast aside by too many organizations that take ‘knee jerk’ reactions in tough times. When the going gets tough, the management cuts back. But there are businesses that do the opposite too. Imagine the pride and loyalty employees would feel if...
Strategies to beat Coronavirus #1. Loneliness versus Togetherness.
People will be working alone more than ever before. Their sense of team and togetherness will be compromised. Feeling part of something bigger and compelling will be weakened. What better way to promote the opposite of these negative effects than by showing that an...
The Happiness Advantage
We need to reverse the usual formula if we want happiness at work (and improved productivity). Psychologist Shawn Achor, in his riveting (and extremely funny) Ted talk endorses everything OND has been saying since our foundation: the current way of building...
Attracting and Retaining Top Talent
So you want to attract and retain top talent. But are you destined to fail because of a basic error: you mistake talents for skills? Let’s make sure we’re on the same page: talents are natural abilities we were all born with. They are the purest form of us and they...
Change your Corporate DNA to build Teams That Work
Take an unparalleled leap forwards by making a change to your corporate DNA. Are you ready to make a big change in your business in order to reap big results? The typical business performs at only 40% efficiency according to Deloitte and other consultancies. You can...
Brain Hover: The Secret to the Perfect Workplace
Let’s start with a précis of the difference between talents and skills. Skills is all that stuff that you learn how to do. You can learn how to be a doctor, for instance, or an engineer or a catwalk model.But talents operate in completely different areas....
Pastors and Talents
Pity the vicar, who only joined the church to share the gospel yet who now runs an enterprise as complicated as a small/medium-sized business.First there’s the spiritual stuff. Sermons to be written and delivered. Sick to be visited and empathised with....
How 2 colleagues re-booted their relationship.
True story. Becky and Sandra worked together in a busy finance team. Their chairs are back to back and they work on related stuff so they need to communicate. But they didn’t get on.Becky was always turning around saying, ‘Sandra, I need to talk to you...