by Guy | 23 Jul, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Scalable Margin, Value & Founder Independence, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs.” – Barbara Tuchman,...
by Guy | 16 Jul, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Strategic Value Direction, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., “Natural Law”, Harvard Law Review, Volume 32, 1918 The board pack looked the way it always looks after a clean...
by Guy | 9 Jul, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Strategic Value Direction, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“…the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.” – Hannah Arendt, On Violence (1970) A leadership team sits down to a board pack that looks exactly like the one from the month...
by Guy | 2 Jul, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Strategic Value Direction, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker, “Managing for Business Effectiveness”, Harvard Business Review (1963) A founder I’d worked with some years earlier had...
by Guy | 25 Jun, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Innovation & Intelligent Leverage, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“Men have become the tools of their tools.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), “Economy” A founder I was speaking with had spent nearly a year choosing the right business system. He had researched it properly, taken references,...
