Publications
Studies, playbooks, reports, articles, and practical frameworks from the Institute for Real Growth.
Study
Five Drivers of Humanized Growth, and the Leader Profile Behind Them
The Q4 2023 partner preview of the IRG Impact Study: the pressures on the C-suite, the gaps between overperformers and everyone else, and the da Vinci humanized growth
Study
Five Drivers of Humanized Growth, and the Gaps Behind Each One
A partner preview of the IRG Impact Study, reporting the differences between over and under performers on stakeholder understanding, purpose, strategy, interdependence and leadership.
Study
Five Drivers of Humanized Growth: The C-Suite Summary
The C-suite executive summary of the Impact Study: what separates organizations practicing Humanized Growth from their counterparts, in five drivers.
Study
Ground, Reimagine, Focus, Organize, Unleash
An executive summary of the IRG Impact Study, setting out the five drivers that separate organizations creating value for all stakeholders from those that underperform.
Interview
Why Growth and Sustainability Are Not Opposites
Marc de Swaan Arons argues that growth is only in conflict with sustainability while it is defined for one stakeholder. Redefined across all of them, and measured on
Report
From a Seat at the Table to a Unifying Force
The marketing deep dive from the Achieving Sustained Value Creation study, arguing that marketing's influence is falling while the bar for the role keeps rising.
Framework
Reading the Stakeholder Debate with a Machine
The AI analysis plan for IRG's stakeholder impact study, and the questions it was built to answer.
Report
What the Stakeholder Impact Study Set Out to Test
The design document behind Achieving Stakeholder Impact: the business context, ten stated beliefs, and twenty-two hypotheses about what overperforming businesses do.
Report
The Question Is No Longer Why, It Is How
A corporate package built on the Achieving Stakeholder Impact study, answering the six how questions the C-suite asks about pivoting from shareholder primacy to stakeholder impact.