(Journal) Field notes from our partners
Notes from the work.
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Every essay, newest first.

Strategy
Why most strategies stall in month two
The plan is rarely the problem. Month two is where ownership blurs, cadence slips and the first real trade-off is quietly avoided.

Operations
Decision rights before org charts
Redrawing boxes feels decisive. Agreeing who decides what, and by when, is what actually changes how fast an organisation moves.

Operations
Cost-out without cutting muscle
A practical way to separate the spend customers notice from the spend they never will, and to protect the first while you cut the second.

Leadership
What a board actually wants from a transformation update
Fewer slides, earlier bad news and one number that moves every month. A short guide to reporting that builds trust instead of eroding it.

Transformation
Running a diagnostic in three weeks, not three months
How we compress discovery without skipping the conversations that matter, and why speed improves the quality of the answer.

Strategy
The one-page strategy, and why it is harder than fifty
If your strategy does not fit on a page, it is probably still a list of hopes. Here is the structure we use with leadership teams.

