Grow fast or die slow

McKinsey demonstrates the value of purposefully collecting and analysing data. In this case, the firm leverages its database of key financial and operational metrics from across nearly 200 growth-stage SaaS businesses and analyses this data to demonstrate correlations across the sample--such as that between low net-revenue churn and top-quartile growth.

McKinsey & Company: Managing the market's reaction to M&A deals

Announcement effects are a good instant measure of market sentiment but a poor indicator of longer-term value creation.

McKinsey & Company: Ahead of the curve: The future of performance management

The worst-kept secret in companies has long been the fact that the yearly ritual of evaluating the performance of employees epitomises the absurdities of corporate life. 

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