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Successful CEOs of Private Equity Funded Ventures

Leslie Pratch and Jordan Jacobowitz
The Journal of Private Equity Summer 2004, 7 (3) 8-31; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jpe.2004.412331
Leslie Pratch
Advises corporate directors, senior executives, private equity investors, and venture capitalists whether the individuals being considered for a firm's most important strategic and operational responsibilities possess the psychological resources and personality strengths needed to be successful. leslie@lesliepratch.com
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Jordan Jacobowitz
An associate professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and adjunct senior lecturer at Northwestern University, Counseling Psychology Department. Among his professional activities during the past thirty years has been the application of psychological assessment instruments to assess, explain, and predict behavior and feelings among normal and clinical populations across the life span.
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There is wide agreement that the quality of top managerial leadership greatly influences the success of any business. The character and personality of the leader can drive business outcomes. Leadership quality is more important in new ventures than in established companies. Private equity investors need to find and use the most effective tools. This article argues that clinical psychological techniques can provide unique insights into the leadership quality of a prospective manager. We argue that private equity should learn how to become intelligent consumers of these methods. In particular, we believe that projective and semi-projective techniques provide the most valuable information. Using them in combination with more traditional evaluation tools should substantially increase the confidence that investors have selected the most capable executive, thereby enhancing private equity returns in portfolios of new venture investments.

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