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The Evolution of the Investment Operating Model

As private capital has matured, the wall between investment professionals and operating professionals has thinned. Leading firms are designing operating models that integrate deal excellence with value creation excellence. They combine talent, technology, and process

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The Case for Interim Leadership in Private Capital

Interim executives provide momentum when time and clarity are in short supply. They stabilize performance during leadership transitions, lead specific transformations, or bridge talent gaps while permanent searches run. Used strategically, interim leadership preserves value

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Compensation Alignment: The Currency of Execution

Compensation is the most powerful lever for shaping leadership behavior. In investor-backed companies, misalignment between incentives and strategy produces predictable dysfunction. The remedy is straightforward but requires discipline: design systems that pay for the outcomes

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Venture Capital’s Leadership Gap

Many startups do not fail from lack of innovation. They fail because leadership capacity does not scale with the business. The leadership gap in venture capital is real and predictable. Early success requires founders who

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The Portfolio Company of the Future

The portfolio company of the future will be instrumented, adaptive, and customer-obsessed. It will use real-time data to steer operations daily, not quarterly. It will be built around cross-functional teams that own outcomes end-to-end, supported

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