by Guy | 3 Sep, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Strategic Value Direction, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.” – Winston Churchill, House of Commons debate on the Address, 12 November 1936...
by Guy | 27 Aug, 2026 | BusinessFitness, Scalable Margin, Value & Founder Independence, Structural Authority, Governance & Operating Design
“Visibility is a trap.” – Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975) Two Businesses, One Set of Numbers Two businesses close the month with very similar results. Same margin, same customer retention, same average debtor days. On paper, comparable...
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 | 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...
