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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Two times more likely to place value on interacting over managing skills.

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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

What have been less explored are the specific actions taken by private equity (PE) fund managers. In a survey of 79 PE firms managing more than $750 billion in capital, we provide granular information on PE managers’ practices and how firms’ strategies relate to the characteristics of their founders.

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An Experiment in India Shows How Much Companies Have to Gain by Investing in Their Employees

Harvard Business Review

But our research suggests that a better way to manage low-wage workers in developing economies is to invest in them, which is good for both worker welfare and the company’s bottom line. PACE teaches communication, time management, decision making, problem solving, and financial literacy through weekly group sessions in the workplace.

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. But they are too small in size and too few in number to make up for the vast majority of funds that fail to generate attractive returns (or any returns) for investors. LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. As long as he gets the last laugh, of course. Icahn won that playground tussle. In 2012 it was $1.9

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