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The first deep filter to apply to a prospect is an assessment of its enduring profitability.
Royce Yudkoff • HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business
getting the people right, getting the teams right.”
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
and a small number will generate the lion’s share of the financial returns for a given fund; and
Scott Kupor • Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Career Management course at Harvard.
John P. Kotter • Power and Influence
The second-best scenario is a serial entrepreneur CEO planning to build out a new team. Third best is a team that did amazing things, but perhaps due to macro market conditions did not achieve a high return for investors.
Patrick Vernon • Venture Capital Strategy: How to Think Like a Venture Capitalist
My colleague Professor Raffaella Sadun, a prominent member of the group, explains the key finding: “If you look at our data, it’s obvious that core management practices can’t be taken for granted. There are enormous differences in how well managers execute even basic tasks like setting targets and tracking performance. And these differences matter:
... See moreFelix Oberholzer-Gee • Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
The fund, now managing $10 billion, had posted average returns of about 45 percent a year, after fees, since 1988, returns that outpaced those of Warren Buffett and every other investing star. (At that point, Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway had gained 20 percent annually since he took over in 1965.)