There’s a sharp - and often costly - difference between cult-like cultures and real, resilient ones built to win.   Cult-like cultures trade in sameness and certainty, masking conformity as alignment. They flourish on unwritten rules and absolute conviction, coupled with a deep resistance to disruptive facts, new perspectives, and dissenting...

For private equity portfolio companies, radical strategic clarity only adds value when it is woven into how the organization actually operates. The leap from vision to results is all about translating strategy into the building blocks of the operating model – so your people and your processes directly contribute to...

The fact that so many private equity firms are still founder-led underscores just how young PE is as an industry. But this also means that a challenge common to their portfolio companies must now be faced by firms themselves – founder succession.   Unlike established industries with deep-rooted leadership transition norms,...