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,...
by Guy | 18 Jun, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Innovation & Intelligent Leverage, Scalable Margin, Value & Founder Independence
“The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.” — Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers (1983) A founder I know became noticeably more productive over the...
by Guy | 11 Jun, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Innovation & Intelligent Leverage, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“The more eagerly a man struggles to reach it, the further he departs from it if he takes the wrong road; for, since this leads in the opposite direction, his very swiftness carries him all the further away.” – Seneca, De Vita Beata (On the Happy Life),...
by Guy | 4 Jun, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Innovation & Intelligent Leverage, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.” — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, 1925 A founder I worked with some years ago had just finished rolling out a significant technology investment. The...
