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Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business

Coaching Tip

The report identified the top four skills that have the greatest impact on leader preparedness and confidence in addressing VUCA challenges: introducing and managing change; building consensus and commitment; inspiring others toward a challenging future vision and leading across generations. Can''t Get Enough Leadership. Ask the Coach .

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

The public pension funds, endowments, and foundations (called limited partners, or LPs) that foot the bill for the industry through their investments in VC funds do so to realize the outsized returns that VC claims to provide. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return.

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

Harvard Business Review

Rather, they rely on internal rates of return and multiples of invested capital. Instead, PE investors typically target a 22% internal rate of return on their investments on average (with the vast majority of target rates of return between 20 and 25%), a return that appears to be above a CAPM-based rate.

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How the Next Generation Is Approaching Society’s Biggest Problems

Harvard Business Review

First, private citizens, particularly younger people, are choosing different types of career paths. The old model — get a job, earn money, pay back — is being replaced by an earlier commitment to change. If not, the investors receive a lower return and risk losing their capital. The government benefits by saving money.

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