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 | 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...
