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The Intangibles: Leadership Approach & Authenticity

N2Growth Blog

Performance measurement is a critically important capability that drives all businesses which are only becoming more relevant and compelling with the advent of AI and automation technologies that give us more of a predictive capability than ever before.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. times EBITDA (compared to average multiples of 15 at the time). The leading companies are getting out in front of this trend. billion, or 20.6

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How Mature is Your Risk Management?

Harvard Business Review

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. They clearly generate higher growth in revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA/EV. Companies in the top 20% of risk maturity generated three times the level of EBITDA as those in the bottom 20%.

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Category Creation Is the Ultimate Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Much of Keurig's success comes from its superior brewer technology and wide variety of K-Cups. Corporate development groups may have to accept that EBITDA multiple valuations may not be appropriate when buying a category creator. Beyond the economics, category creation may be the most fun you can have in business.

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The $300 House: The Urban Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Building off US-inspired steel-based technology, we believe that it's possible to design, build, deliver, and erect affordable multi-tier tower housing, addressed squarely to lower class sections of the Indian demographic.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Third, firms understate their depreciation expense because they assume that their long-lived assets will retain their worth over the long term — even though technological change increasingly makes them obsolete. Such misplaced optimism potentially masks underinvestment in technology needed to keep up with the competition.

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Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. But analysts are judging EBITDA, P/E ratios, quarterly growth, and cashflows – which don’t always correlate with long-term value creation.