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October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Diana Peterson-More shared Covid Communication: Spread a Little Kindness.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. This phase was loosely called leverage buy out (LBO) from about 1979 to 1990 and included over 2,000 LBOs. In this phase, the acquired property is not just managed, but transformed.

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Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value

Harvard Business Review

These connections had to be at least senior managers or higher positions to be considered. We measured their firm’s value by Tobin’s Q, a ratio between market value of assets to book value of assets. To test this, we examined market reactions around the announcement of mergers.