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Midsize Companies Shouldn’t Confuse Growth with Scaling

Harvard Business

During the 2008 recession, midcap companies proved surprisingly tough: Fully 82% of them survived to see the recovery (only 57% of small businesses made it through), and midcap companies added an average of 20 jobs each while big businesses were shedding thousands of jobs. trillion in private sector GDP.

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Without that, he is ill-equipped to make the right organizational, business model, and product bets to bring those innovations to market.

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Profit Leakage Calculator: Diagnose How Much Profit a Business is Losing

ConsultX

This algorithm has been developed since 2008 and has been constantly improved with the input of over 500 consultants working with 15,000+ businesses. Check out a demo of the ConsultX System, including the Profit Leakage Calculator. Watch 6 Minute Demo of ConsultX and the Profit Leakage Calculator. We want to show you more!