A practical method for deciding when the data is partial, late, or too expensive to gather: price the reversal first, identify the one fact that could flip your choice, and write down what would make you wrong.
Growth rarely destroys focus by accident. It changes what focus requires. Here is what actually causes strategic drift in a growing small business, and the tests that reveal it early.
Picture a six-person consulting firm at its January planning session. Someone writes $1.2M this year on the whiteboard. Everyone agrees it is achievable. By April, revenue looks almost exactly like last April, and nobody can point to a single week where the plan...