3 ways to avoid the pitfall of stale pricing

Originally published on Forbes.com Prices get stale. And for good reason: markets are changing. Your competitors are coming out with new products and services. What’s important to people is changing. The motives behind your customers’ buyin…

How to protect the pricing power you’ve created

Originally published on Forbes.com When asked about pricing power, most commercial leaders seem to resonate with Warren Buffett’s famous quote about having the ability to raise prices without losing customers. In today’s markets, I…

How to build and protect your pricing power

Originally published on Forbes.com It’s widely understood that a small price change can drive exponential return in profits. But as I’ve interviewed founders and CXOs about their strategies, nobody seems to know exactly what pricing power i…

Pent up demand gets the PE flywheel running again

Polish up your value creation toolkit – the 2023 freeze in private equity deal activity is about to thaw.All businesses, from startups to MM to the F500, operate with a business model flywheel. In PE, we can simplify this into four steps: raise ca…