When did you last get ninety minutes to think?
Running a business fills every hour with doing. But thinking is the job, and almost nobody schedules it.
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Thinking you can use
Practical writing on running and growing a business, from someone who has done it at scale. No theory for theory's sake; everything here ends in something you can do.
New here? Start with why it's called Consulting Partner. Consultants visit; partners sit on your side of the table.
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Forty company sites in an afternoon and I could not tell them apart. Most were drafted with help, and the help produces the average.
A lesson in unconscious bias, learned the useful way: in public, on my own shop window.
Generic AI gives generic output. The gap between impressive-sounding and useful is context.
The right response is not louder AI. It is quieter AI and louder humanity.
The most expensive problems are not dramatic failures. They are small taxes, compounding quietly.
Most integrations stall because nobody decided how integrated the acquisition should actually be.
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Evidence before opinion: diagnosing a business in twelve weeksApril 2026 · 5 min read Learned somewhere expensive
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The maths of a fractional executive versus a full-time hireMarch 2026 · 4 min read
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Busy growth and profitable growth are not the same thingFebruary 2026 · 4 min read Straight talking
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Five signs the founder has become the bottleneckJanuary 2026 · 4 min read
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Pricing with a spine: why the cheapest quote wins the worst workDecember 2025 · 5 min read Straight talking
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What to steal from big companies (and what to leave behind)November 2025 · 5 min read Learned somewhere expensive
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The ears to mouth ratio: the best consultants listen twice as much as they speakNovember 2025 · 5 min read
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