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We make investments in companies that aren't performing all that well. The biggest impact we're having is we're lighting a fire under a management team to do more faster than they would have otherwise done.
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If the CEO welcomes us in and wants to have this open dialogue about high-level strategy and what can happen with the business and what can be done better, it's usually going to go in one direction. If instead you have a CEO that's putting up the walls, it might go a different direction.
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I've learned this about myself, that I need things to be more efficient. It doesn't matter where I am or what I'm looking at, I have to analyze the best way, the most efficient plan forward.