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What if the world’s highest-performing CEOs held a master class to share the skills and practices that have driven their success? #CEOExcellenceBook offers critical insights from interviews with 67 CEOs. Preorder it here ➡️ https://t.co/966SoaJT1Q

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In private equity, outperformance is shifting from leverage and multiple expansion to disciplined value creation. Our latest podcast episode explores five moves firms are making now. Listen here: https://t.co/K9XuuRhEi9

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What will distinguish future PE winners? In our latest podcast, AD Bhatia, Robin Ligon, Jason Phillips, and CVC’s John Kelleher discuss how firms are rethinking value creation. Listen: https://t.co/j2thQrCRhE

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The right insight at the right time can shape better decisions.

The Valuation Practitioner delivers McKinsey perspectives on valuation, growth, capital allocation, and long-term value creation.

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Experience can sharpen judgment—and narrow it. Our article explores how egocentric anchoring and authority bias can distort leadership decisions. https://t.co/55nkzzYejJ

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Leadership influence often begins with deeper understanding.

Explore #CEO4AllSeasons for insights from the world's most successful CEOs on how to navigate every stage of the CEO’s journey, from stepping up to sending it forward.
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Capital structure is not a formula. It is a set of choices about strategy, flexibility, and risk.

Discover the 3 questions finance leaders should when setting capital structure and payout plans:
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The CEO role is getting more demanding and the margin for error is shrinking.

#CEO4AllSeasons explores how the most successful CEOs lead across every stage of the journey:
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Cost of capital shapes acquisitions, investment choices, and capital allocation. Get it wrong and you can overpay, reject strong opportunities, or misallocate capital.

7 common WACC pitfalls in The Valuation Practitioner:
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Volatility in high-growth businesses isn’t a flaw in the model. It reflects the economics. Valuation, 8th Edition shows why scenario-based analysis matters: start with mature-state economics, work back, and weigh multiple paths.

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Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase reflected: “The big lesson I learned? Don’t get complacent, despite a successful track record.”

Explore #CEO4AllSeasons to see how the most successful leaders stay ahead at every stage of the CEO's role.
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Busy calendar. Slow progress?

The goal isn’t fewer meetings.
It’s making the right ones count.

The best CEOs reserve meetings for work that truly needs the room and move everything else faster elsewhere.

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Small mistakes in cost of capital assumptions can create outsized valuation consequences.

The Valuation Practitioner outlines 7 pitfalls and how to avoid them.

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A valuation model needs more than accuracy, it needs discipline.

Test for technical integrity, economic logic, and plausibility. Then use sensitivity and scenarios to focus on what drives value.

Framework from Valuation, 8th Edition:
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The hardest part of crisis management is knowing when you are in one.

NYT best seller, #CEO4AllSeasons, explores how leaders prepare for moments that define the role across the whole CEO journey.

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Most leaders don’t have a meeting problem.
They have a work design problem.

The best CEOs know what should happen async, what needs the room, and design calendars accordingly.

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AI’s biggest impact may not be making existing work faster.

It may be forcing leaders to redesign work itself.

The real question: are we using AI to optimize old systems, or to build better ones? https://t.co/THxIiYew6Z

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In a crisis, stakeholders ask two things:
Can you capably lead? Do you genuinely care?
The best CEOs bring both. Clear judgment and visible humanity. That’s what builds trust when it matters most.
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What gets a leader to the top is not always what helps them thrive once they arrive.

Discover what changes when you step into the CEO role and how the most effective leaders adapt at every stage of the journey:
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In a crisis, people judge what they see, not what you meant.

Discover how the most effective leaders close the gap:
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The strongest ideas in finance endure through use.

Valuation, 8th Edition continues to shape how leaders think about capital allocation, performance, and long-term value creation, across industries and cycles.

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