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October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Rather than have the (internal) knee jerk/lizard brain reaction when seeing someone not wearing a mask, it’s time to flip it, and to thank those who do. What three lessons can we learn from her? Marcia shares: “ Coaxing vs. Challenging – do you know the difference? Once you get there you excel at what you do.

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Understanding Financial Leverage

Harvard Business Review

The other, on face value, has little to do with control: "the use of credit to enhance one's speculative capacity." Combining the two suggests that the party which borrows has the leverage — they have the power and advantage over others. Somehow, that flies in the face of what many of us learned at an early age.

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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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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies. times global GDP).

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