#GetGroundedWithGrace
THE BLOGWhere I think out loud. Short, honest pieces on leadership, the story behind the numbers, strategy, and my own journey. Written to move readers and change behaviour, mine included.
A new post every Tuesday. Catch them first on LinkedIn.
It Was Never Yours to Spend: Why Profitable Businesses Run Out of Cash
A budget plans profit over a period. A cashflow forecast maps money by date. Here is why a business can hit its budget, look healthy, and still be unable to pay the BAS.
Thank You, Bain: The Rule of Seven and the Meetings That Finally End
Bain’s Rule of Seven says every person past seven cuts decision effectiveness by 10 per cent. How to run smaller meetings without anyone feeling left out.
"Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking, B1?" What Two Bananas Knew About Teamwork
The plan playing in your head does not travel with your words. Psychologists call it the curse of knowledge: once you know what you mean, you cannot imagine someone hearing anything else.
Why Growing Businesses Starve Their Own Foundations
Why SMEs systematically over-invest in revenue and under-invest in systems - and the behavioural economics that explains why we cannot see it until the wall arrives.
Avoid Your Thoughts
Efficiency is the most socially acceptable way to avoid your own thinking.
Expensive Spreadsheets
KPIs without strategy aren't metrics. 📊 They're expensive spreadsheets.
The Process Nobody Owned
The analysts rebuilt everything. Every report, every piece of logic, meticulously reconstructed. Weeks of work.
But, what was the report actually for?
Do Less, Lead More.
The story every business owner can relate to - what it feels like to wear too many hats and how I help with a supporting hand.