by Guy | 13 Aug, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Scalable Margin, Value & Founder Independence, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?” – Henry David Thoreau, letter to H. G. O. Blake, 16 November 1857 The Second Late Friday It’s the second Friday running that the team’s still there...
by Guy | 6 Aug, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Scalable Margin, Value & Founder Independence, Strategic Value Direction
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” – William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963) A business closes its best year on record. Revenue up...
by Guy | 30 Jul, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Scalable Margin, Value & Founder Independence, Strategic Value Direction
“I am tempted to declare that whatever doctrine the Armed Forces are working on, they have got it wrong. I am also tempted to declare that it does not matter that they have got it wrong. What does matter is their capacity to get it right quickly when the moment...
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...
