OPERATING PRINCIPLES
How I work under uncertainty.
The aim is not to remove uncertainty. It is to identify the uncertainty capable of changing the decision.
Leadership teams rarely suffer from a shortage of intelligence or activity. The harder problem is learning fast enough to change a commitment before the cost of being wrong becomes too high.
SIX PRINCIPLES
01
Decisions before activity
A busy organisation can still be standing still. Work matters when it is connected to a decision and an intended outcome.
02
Evidence before certainty
Certainty is usually too slow or impossible. The goal is enough evidence to make the next decision responsibly.
03
Strategy is a hypothesis
A strategy is a set of beliefs about customers, markets, capability and timing. Reality must be allowed to change it.
04
Commercial evidence beats internal consensus
Twenty people agreeing does not equal one customer buying. Alignment matters, but it cannot replace market behaviour.
05
Fundraising is an operating function
The company must know what investors need to believe, what evidence supports it and what the capital will unlock.
06
Systems beat heroics
Growth becomes durable when priorities, ownership, decisions and learning can move without depending on a few people.
FROM PRINCIPLE TO ACTION
Frame → Evidence → Commit
Frame
Find the choice, alternatives and assumptions capable of changing it.
Evidence
Replace internal confidence with signals from customers, products, markets and operations.
Commit
Choose, name ownership and carry the decision into the first executable move.
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SEE THE PRINCIPLES IN PRACTICE
Choose before you scale
How Sony’s IoT venture moved from broad possibility to a customer and lasting capability.
Evidence beats features
How a fleet intelligence company turned activity into proposition-level commercial evidence.
Systems beat heroics
How Ubisoft Connect scaled from 40 to 240 people behind a platform serving more than 60 million users.
What are we assuming that we cannot yet demonstrate?
Every engagement begins by turning that question into a decision the company can act on.
Jörn Green 