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Articles, guides, videos, and frameworks on strategy, leadership, and execution for growing businesses.
Private Equity
Elite football managers have spent decades solving the same problem an operating partner faces inside a hold: diagnosing what a specific team needs, and when. Four managers, four distinct answers.
September 2, 2026
Private Equity
Value creation in the first six months of new ownership is a sequencing problem — and getting the order wrong is expensive for the rest of the hold.
August 26, 2026
Execution
A private equity sponsor doesn't wait for rising costs to show up in the numbers — they quantify the exposure and act on it in advance. Here's a checklist for running that same discipline inside your own business.
August 25, 2026
Strategy
In private equity, every dollar of investment has to trace back to a reason. The same discipline — connecting strategy, go-to-market, and the discrete projects a team works on — applies to any growing business.
August 10, 2026
Frameworks
A deeper walkthrough of the Compass Framework's six areas — why they're sequenced the way they are, and how they connect into a working operating system rather than a static list.
August 10, 2026
