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The necessity of mastering the vital few
Most of us are familiar with the Pareto Principle, often referred to as the 80:20 rule. The idea, as captured in the graphic below is that a few activities are disproportionately responsible for a large majority of results. The implication, if we can identify the valuable few and take action to deliver them, is that we can achieve substantially better outcomes…
Our investments to support your investing
Because 2020 let us work with some investor friends more than others, I thought it might be helpful to briefly summarise the ways in which the Catalysis team has been honing its ability to provide you with what we believe has become the most agile and insightful source of support for mid-market investors around management…
How do companies grow? Some little-known insights for investors and teams
A few years ago, there was a major study carried out by the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) at Aston University which looked at the performance over time of 48,000 high growth firms (HGFs) in the UK. HGFs are defined by the OECD as companies ‘with average annualised growth…
Why you are spending more time dealing with non-financial issues (and why that is likely to continue)
It is not surprising, that with so much going on in the news at the moment, we tend to stay focused on coping with the short term disruptions we are faced with: a second wave of Covid, the messy economic environment and the unpredictable implications of Brexit…
Investing in the mid-market this autumn? Why you need to be a paranoid optimist
So, we got through the initial lockdown period, hopefully relaxed a bit over the summer and it’s now back to school - and back to investing. The deal pipelines of Catalysis clients and the CF advisers appear busy again which is encouraging. But to state the obvious, there are more uncertainties…