Leadership Under Pressure: Aligning Growth and Efficiency

This report by Criticaleye Partner AlixPartners shows how leadership effectiveness has become the most important driver of value creation, drawing on a decade of research into leadership across private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

• PE firms and portcos have the same goals – but disagree about how well they are achieving them
• Different means to the same end: where PE and portco leaders diverge
• PE ownership creates a pressure cooker environment for leaders
• PE firms and portcos can do more to support effective leadership