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Two Tweets & A Blog

Deming Institute

conjures up the works of W. What follows is taken from a couple pages of my book, Sys-Tao – Western Logic and Eastern Flow. It’s about the relationships that make up our world more so than the stuff that is in our world. million in a Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) to buy an Oklahoma based Coca-Cola bottling company.

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When Talent Started Driving Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

In 1976, the famous LBO firm KKR was formed and starting charging its clients 2% of assets under management and 20% of the upside they created for their clients, opening the door to massive wealth accumulation for high-flying fund management talent. And when the world did, talent responded: “You are right.

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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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