The report arrives on the twentieth. The decision was made on the fourth.

Most reporting cadences are set by the accounting calendar rather than by how fast the underlying thing can move, and that gap is where blind decisions live.

By Steve 5 min read
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A business with genuinely good management accounts can still be steering blind. Not because the numbers are wrong, but because they arrive after the decisions they were meant to inform. Margin slipped in week two. The pack showing it landed on the twentieth of the following month. By then the same slip had run for six more weeks, and the people who could have changed something had already committed the capacity, quoted the next job, and approved the overtime. The useful question is not “are our numbers accurate?” It is…

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