How the Company Runs When You’re Not in the Room
Most 2027 plans name priorities, not the second in command who carries them. What the role really means, what it costs, and what it protects.
Everyone Underwrites the Plan. Nobody Measures the Team.
Buying a company is an act of belief. The buyer believes the plan will hold, the earnings will grow, and the team will carry both. Two of those three beliefs get tested hard. The third mostly gets a handshake. That third test is management diligence. Here is what testing the earnings looks like. A forensic […]
Private Equity Buys Talent. Founders Should Build It.
A report landed this month that every founder should read. Even the ones with no intention of ever selling. Altrata studied more than 11,500 portfolio companies and 60,000 executives. One finding is quiet on the page. Still, it changes the math for anyone building a company. Private equity now fills 74% of portfolio-company leadership roles […]
C-Suite Turnover Isn’t an Event. It’s the Weather Now.
C-suite turnover used to be an occasional event. A board managed it and moved past it. Now it is the constant condition every organization operates inside, and it runs at record levels across nearly every seat. When turnover is the environment, no company can anchor its stability on the people who happen to stay. The […]
Succession Planning is a Valuation Problem, Not an HR Problem.
What investors, boards, and buyers see in your succession plan — and what they don’t see when one is missing. Five years ago, succession planning was a quiet item on the back of the board agenda. Today succession planning is one of the first questions in investor diligence. In February 2026, Deloitte Private released the […]
You’re Investing In Your Leaders-And They Don’t Know It…
Gallup just released its 2026 State of the Global Workplace report — and the timing couldn’t be more relevant to section 132 leadership development. Global employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025. That’s the lowest level since 2020, the first time Gallup recorded two consecutive years of decline, and a figure representing an estimated $10 […]
The Succession Conversation You Should Have Already Started
Most founders think succession planning is something you do at the end. Before the exit. Before the transition. Before the investor asks. It gets filed under important but not urgent—right up until it becomes both. And for most founders, that moment arrives too late. In other words, if you are waiting until the conversation is […]