by Guy | 22 Oct, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Strategic Value Direction, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design, Uncategorized
“Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice.” – Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (trans. Richard Crawley) In most businesses, a shock like this year’s oil and...
by Guy | 15 Oct, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Scalable Margin, Value & Founder Independence, Strategic Value Direction
“If I beg and pray you to set me free, then bind me more tightly still.” – Homer, The Odyssey, Book XII, trans. Samuel Butler (1900) Picture two owners of established specialist engineering businesses, a composite of several I’ve known, a few...
by Guy | 8 Oct, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Strategic Value Direction, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“The impression of the senses is stronger than the force of the ideas resulting from methodical reflection.” – Carl von Clausewitz, On War (1832), Book I, Chapter 6, trans. J. J. Graham (1873) Some twenty years ago I was flying up from the Lowveld...
by Guy | 1 Oct, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Strategic Value Direction, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“The reason why so few executives concentrate is the difficulty of setting ‘posteriorities’ – that is, deciding what tasks not to tackle – and of sticking to the decision.” – Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive (1967) It’s...
by Guy | 24 Sep, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Scalable Margin, Value & Founder Independence, Strategic Value Direction
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Introduction (1776) Item seven on the monthly management agenda is an update on something launched about eighteen months...
