by Guy | 5 Feb, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Leadership Pressure & Decisions, Owner Dependency, Time & Scale
“The great difficulty in life is to know when to persist and when to let go.” – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness, 1930 When everything still passes through you – even when it no longer needs to There comes a point that many leaders of growing SMEs...
by Guy | 29 Jan, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Strategic Leadership
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” — William James, lecture on philosophy and psychology, c. 1890s When leadership attention becomes thin The start of a year often brings renewed seriousness rather than renewed clarity. Leaders...
by Guy | 22 Jan, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Strategic Leadership
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” – John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, 1936 The Year Changes. The Logic Often Doesn’t There’s something interesting about the turn of a...
by Guy | 15 Jan, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Leadership, Strategic Clarity
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” – Robert Burns, To a Mouse, 1785 When Nothing Goes Wrong, Yet Something Is Lost Most SME CEOs reach a moment, often sometime in February, when they notice something that’s hard to pin down at first. Nothing...
by Guy | 8 Jan, 2026 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Excellence, Leadership, Strategic Thinking, Strategy
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal January and the Pressure for Answers January has a particular feel for leaders. Not loud, not overtly frantic, but quietly insistent. There is an unspoken...
by Guy | 18 Dec, 2025 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Coaching, Culture, Customers, Excellence, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Risk, Strategy, Success, Technology, Valuation
What five decades in business taught me about judgement, resilience, and momentum From Buttons to Boardrooms: Setting the Scene Picture this: 1972, a dimly lit computer room in, then, Salisbury, Rhodesia. I’m a 17-year-old trainee operator, feeding punch...
