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The private equity market is more efficient and competitive than ever. And in this era of PE, the value buys, arbitrage opportunities, and financial engineering strategies that investors once relied on to juice returns simply aren’t as juicy and reliable as they once were.

This has put growing pressure on investors and executives to nail post-closing value creation to stay ahead. So for many firms and executives, yesterday’s playbook for success must evolve to stay competitive in today’s Value Creation Era of private equity.

Drawing on 1,000+ combined years of wisdom from 60+ successful mid-market private equity professionals and executives, Dan Cremons sets out to answer one of the most pressing questions facing private equity investors and executives today:

In this era of private equity, how can investors and executives get ahead by more consistently, predictably, and methodically driving value creation in their companies?

If you’re an investor or executive wrestling with the same question, this book is for you. Winning Moves—Describes the market realities in the Value Creation Era and how we got hereDeconstructs value creation into its actionable component partsEquips readers with a vast arsenal of proven "winning moves" for driving value creation throughout the deal lifecycleDemonstrates how value creation success is near-impossible without a people-focused culture and a winning teamProvides a roadmap for making value creation happen throughout a deal’s lifecycleBursting with actionable advice straight from the mid-market trenches, this book can help private equity professionals and executives accelerate equity value creation, generate better returns, and take their careers to new heights.

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B2TRD4N8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independent (June 6, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 342 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8985851502
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.78 x 9 inches
Reviewer: will
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Must Read for Business Leaders in the PE World
Review: Easy to read and understand, and very actionable for business leaders in the PE realm. Dan does a good job explaining the dynamics, the goals, and most importantly how to create value. The hard copy book even has tabs for each section which make it a great resource to keep on the bookshelf and refer back to when needed.

Reviewer: NAS
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: engaging read - highly recommend
Review: This book is organized well and lays out the state of private equity today, giving you context for the part of the book that has all the juicy bits — the winning moves. You might start reading this book and say to yourself the winning moves are just a list of tips for improving your marketing and sales efforts. Bingo. That’s what drives value creation and keeps customers happy and coming back for more. The author gives a lot of information on value creation and focuses on the importance of people in that endeavor. He shows if you don’t have the right leadership and team in place, it won’t matter how well you do anything else. Although I read it cover to cover, you can jump to the section containing the information you need without being lost. I found this to be an engaging read thanks to the author’s conversational and no-nonsense style. Highly recommend.

Reviewer: Jennifer Jordan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Useful, Practical and Valuable
Review: This book organizes value creation plays in a way that makes them easy to understand, reference and execute, without over complicating them.

Reviewer: Macon A. Albertson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Read - Applicable to much more than PE
Review: I have supported PE companies for many years and was eager to read the book. Dan doesn't disappoint, and has put together a great piece. To be brief, his chapters supporting the 105 winning moves are founded on the principles of utilizing consistent process to produce predictable, scalable and repeatable results. The lessons and strategies are applicable regardless of industry. Amazing that he has been able to cover such a large scope of operations in one book. Anyone with accountability for creating value by being positioned in leadership would benefit from this book, regardless if they are in a PE portco or not.

Reviewer: Wyatt Kane
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Worth Buying & Reading for SME CEOs
Review: Dan wrote a useful handbook for increasing the enterprise value of a company, primarily through sales growth. This is not a book to read cover to cover. Instead, it is something I look to for inspiration when it's time to make the next push in my business.Dan's systematic way of breaking value creation into different steps helped my thinking as I revisited our sales plan this year.I like that he starts with sales growth with familiar customers and markets first. In my experience with B2B, this is more realistic than what most sales and marketing books promise. Even as a business grows, the lowest hanging sales fruit is often overlooked in favor of the latest marketing vogue. (eg, compare the ROI of a referral program and Facebook ads for B2B... Not that marketing is bad, but without the referral rate, a cold conversion is worth much less.)The chapter on margin expansion is lean. When I first picked up the book, I figured many PE businesses were bought with 20% margins and exited for about the same. But lately, there have been some take-private tech buyouts with a margin improvement thesis. Maybe this area could be explored more in a 2.0 or next book.The only thing I would change is that the book reads a bit salesy. There are quotes attributed to "seven bagger CEO", rather than simply referring to people by name. A CEO or investor does not need to be a household name for their quote to be interesting. (And compensation is not always proportional to ability.) If the audience for this book is management professionals, an "Elements of Style"-ish handbook might be a more enduring classic.Overall, THIS IS AN EXCELLENT book! In my top 3 books of the year, and I read about one book per week. Something I will keep coming back to for many years. I would not be surprised if this book becomes an underground classic, especially if a 2nd edition comes out with improvements.Well done, Dan. I'll have to figure out how to get you to sign my copy sometime.

Reviewer: Donald Morton
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good tools, little dry
Review: Not the most exciting book but good business insights.

Reviewer: S. Sloan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A must read for those in the PE space
Review: In his book "Winning Moves" Dan Cremons masters the art of making a finance based book engaging and exciting, while remaining incredibly insightful. I appreciated the friendly, yet informative tone Dan used, while positioning himself as the expert he is. I am a professional who is fairly new to the Private Equity industry, so I found this book helpful in 'learning the language' of my clients. Now I will be able to better articulate how my team can assist our clients as they work to create value within their organizations and leverage the moves mentioned in this book accordingly.

Reviewer: Lucas Richichi
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best roadmap for MM value creation I’ve seen
Review: How many of us start our value creation plans post-close, yikes! Love how this book distills decades of industry veteran experience into a clear-cut, systematic roadmap for creating, maintaining, and even maximizing the value of portco investments. Lucky to have stumbled upon it early in my career! - I keep a copy in my office

Reviewer: Luke
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I really enjoyed this book and found it very straightforward. The ideas were practical and could be tailored to any business. This book was a great read for me this summer as I contemplated the strategic direction of some of our companies and what we could do to drive value creation.As the saying goes, "Price is what you pay and value is what you get". You will derive great value from reading this book.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: So I'm not the typical target reader here. I'm a bootstrapped founder, running 2 EdTech businesses. We do about mid-7 figures in profit.I bought this book because our industry's been pretty disrupted lately and I needed some inspo into how our business should evolve and how to maximize our value.I loved the book — gave me a lot of ideas, both on how to think about growth but also crank up the dials with our existing users and channels. There were also a ton of examples sprinkled throughout the book which added color too.If you want to learn how to drive value in ANY business, buy this 🙂

Reviewer: Dhania Parakkatil
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good book for PE employees

Reviewer: Neyirp Segol
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Being the Principal of a search fund looking at lower mid-market cap businesses, I often found myself pouring through hundreds of private equity books hoping to find something that focused on value creation. Much as been written about structuring deals and how to finance deals, even how to create synthetic financial instruments to leverage against. Yet, little to nothing has been written about actually creating value in the businesses that are purchased. Or when there, is it is at best some way or another saying just cut costs.In Winning Moves, Dan gives a multitude of strategies/ tactics operators and principals can implement to increase a company's cash flow and ultimately its business value. I have personally found building businesses and driving growth the most interesting and rewarding aspect of private equity and it is refreshing to see a book that is just dedicated to this part.This book is very practical, so for those that want a deep analysis why and when to use each strategy, should refer to other material in conjunction, but it's fairly easy to understand and very intuitive what tools in this Rolodex need to be used when.I'll be recommending this to the search fund/ lower mid market private equity community I know of and I also encourage any entrepreneurs in the B2B space to have a read as well - it's a great little handbook.I hope there is a version for B2C that comes out soon!