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Exclusive: Jim Collins on ‘Thriving In Chaos’

Chief Executive

But they had this march, which was doubling components at affordable cost every 18 to 24 months, no matter what, like clockwork. It speaks to figuring out what that one key metric is that moves your business, and committing to it over and over. And if we do that, we can’t help but grow revenues per fixed cost.

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

This typically means they look to re-engineer the balance sheet to increase shareholder yield, over the shortest amount of time possible, which typically ranges between six to twelve months. However, free cash flow per share remained impressive at both companies, and fixed cost ratios remained somewhat intact.