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 | 14 May, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Strategic Value Direction, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.” – Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management, 1954 The Meeting That Resolved Nothing The meeting ends on a...
by Guy | 30 Apr, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Scalable Margin, Value & Founder Independence, Strategic Value Direction
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca, Letters to Lucilius (Epistulae Morales), Letter 104, c. AD 65 There is a situation that many founders will recognise. It...
by Guy | 23 Apr, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Strategic Value Direction, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.” – James Harvey Robinson, The Mind in the Making, 1921 There is a moment that many founders will recognise, although it rarely feels like...
