Signal Only one in ten large businesses grew revenue in seven of the past ten years

Summary

McKinsey cites its earlier research showing that only one in ten large businesses managed to grow revenue in seven of the previous ten years. The report uses this to illustrate how difficult sustained growth becomes at scale. It connects the problem to a loss of clarity about the core as businesses grow larger and more diverse. The finding appears among five challenges that make it hard for companies to reallocate resources and concentrate on their core. McKinsey observes that leading companies respond by rotating their portfolios and asking whether they remain the best owners of each business or segment. It also points out that only one in six companies with below-median core growth still outgrew their peers overall.