A quick, actionable and easy to read book - crystallizing the essence of corporate strategy for CEOs, from the lens of consultants (authors are from Bain & Co).

Read this book a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Crisp and to the point with good business lessons. Below are my notes. More summaries like this can be found at www.libraryof.xyzHugh MacArthur and Orit Gadiesh, at Bain & Company, shows six techniques that owners and business leaders can apply to increase the value of their companies. These are: (1) defining the company’s full potential, (2) developing a change plan, (3) putting the plan to work, (4) using existing talent, (5) equity should

Excellent teachings every manager should be aware of in order to create and increase value. The only drawback is that it is too short to provide enough depth for each lesson.

Some good lessons inside which can apply to business leadership as well as fundamental analysis of businesses. I particularly liked the section on “Making Equity Sweat” which was succinct in explaining why it’s so important to focus on cash return on capital.

Orit Gadiesh has done an excellent work on preparing this concise and crispy clear recommendations package for the Private Equity practitioners. The examples she has used are quite interesting.

Fantastic short and straight to the point with Less fluffFantastic book with very valid points and good examples.Define the blueprintDefine full potential.Make equity sweatAlso some other very valid main points and thoughts regarding the board.

I often talk about all the great internship experiences I had while I was in college. One such experience was my first exposure to true blue private equity. I had worked at early stage venture funds, but PE was a different beast all together, or so I learned as I started working for Cicero Group’s private equity practice. My manager at the time, Spencer Nelson, gave me this little book, which he’d gotten from Randy Shumway. This was my first exposure to how to think like an investor.I read most

Great learnings. Key success factor is attention to details and focus on critical issues Great learning. Key success factor is attention to details, focus on key things and intensity and rigour of implementation in a timely manner

Does private equity owned companies have a superior management model than public owned companies? The writers of this book certainly like to think so. Israeli born strategy expert Orit Gadiesh is the chairwoman of the management consulting firm Bain & Company and Hugh MacArthur is the leader of the same firms’ - huge - global private equity practice. In this short book they describe the private equity (PE) management model and try to show how public companies can utilize the same techniques.As t...

Really not sure who the intended audience of this book is. It is an extremely short book and likely of little or no value to a CEO running a company. Written by two consultants from Bain Capital, the basic framework (written by consultants, hence...) gives five bullet mantras to be followed sequentially and the output should magically resemble the lean, mean beast that a successful private equity portfolio company looks like. Too full of gyan (or "globe"/ "gas" as MBA students call it) and of li...

The authors present an generic problem-solving methodology similar to the one presented by AG Lafley in Playing to Win. I especially enjoyed the section about "make equity sweat". PE companies are often personated as revenue and profit hungry actors. However, the authors explain how most PE companies focus on cash management and working capital to fulfill the potential of their portfolio companies. The recommended tips for "making equity sweet" are: - Use debt service and leverage the company. B...

Fairly easy read that doesn’t tell you much about PE at all, but emphasises a few key points about running a large organisation. Worth skipping.

Kind of superficial …

Short book with some interesting case studies. Lots of the points are quite obvious, but the authors have some interesting thoughts on management teams underestimating the right amount of debt in a business. They also do a good job explaining how PE firms define full potential for an investment.

Here's a book that presents itself seemingly as a PE construction-kit of sorts. This might be akin to say solving all the worlds' political quandaries through one carefully crafted sports tournament (+where the deserved teams get the win, ex ante facto). Possible. It might then be practicable to solve all your professional doles by quickly flicking through the pages of one book.

Thanks to Grant McClure for turning me on to this one. Short, sweet, and meaty, this book/memo lays out the core tenets of value creation for leading PE shops as seen through the eyes of PE consultants at Bain. The six-bullet skeleton is as follows: * Define the full potential* Develop the blueprint* Accelerate performance* Harness the talent* Make equity sweat* Foster a results-oriented mindsetAs the bullets may allude, I would put this book in the category of "refresher" more than "paradigm-sh...

I read this book over a few years. Started in at the end of 2009 and it was eventually finished it in 2016. It is not long but very good information. For anyone that wants to understand the Private Equity impact on business. Many businesses need funding from private sources or are taken over by companies and would need to know about what might to expect next. It is a good book but helps to have some interested in business or in private equity.

Good and a quick readThe book was a quick read. Offering high-level suggestions on the pe modus operandi that can easily be adopted and understood

The book by BAIN consultants is to some extent, self serving via the recomendation of PMO, benchmarking etc. Some points however is that 3-5 year fund horizon does not allow for misfires-hence PE firms tend to be very demanding and bite the bullet fast. other interesting mental models are 'full potential realization', as also hiring tips.

Boring, stuffy, irrelevant to business today (2018). I had to read it for work.