People Fuel Growth: How High Growth Companies Leverage Talent.
Growth is on every executive’s mind… especially in our current metric-focused business environment, where every quarter must show returns. Business cycles are shortening, and firms must develop both strategy and operational plans that respond to rapid business environment changes. When we speak with clients across industries, we hear a common refrain. Post the Great Recession, firms became extraordinarily good at “control”, and being able to drive margin growth. In the same breath they tell us, they have perhaps lost the ability to think of growth holistically.