Leadership
Two weeks away is a test of the schedule, not the business
A fortnight without the owner tests the tasks that happen weekly. The things that actually make a business fragile happen four times a year.
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Two kinds of decisions, one speed
Most firms apply the same deliberation to choices they could undo in a fortnight and ones they will live with…
Leadership
Your risk register is a list of things that already happened
Most risk registers are written backwards (from incidents, not exposures), which is why the entry that matters is usually the…
Leadership
The 12% drop that was three deals
Most movements in a monthly report carry no information at all, and the meetings they trigger tend to leave the…
Leadership
Owner dependency isn’t about hours. It’s about decisions.
An owner working two days a week can still be the single biggest reason a buyer discounts the business, and…
Leadership
The decision you make three times
When a settled call keeps coming back to the table, the problem is rarely indiscipline. It is usually a signal…
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This is the general pattern. Your business is the specific case.
Everything here is free to read with an account, and always will be. What it cannot do is tell you which of these applies to your numbers, your market and your constraints. That is the work we do with clients.