What Every Leadership Team Can Borrow from Private Equity - - PE funds are, by design, performance machines. Every rupee deployed carries a return profile, a timeline, a value thesis. But look more closely at how the best PE firms run their portfolio companies, and something more interesting emerges — a discipline that sits at the intersection of rigour and patience, accountability and genuine support. The more interesting question is not whether PE-backed businesses outperfo

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