The Member Who Deals Elsewhere
A cooperative competes for the business of the people who own it. Appeals to loyalty are the wrong instrument, and they signal that the institution has…
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Supervising Somebody Who Is Learning
A programme delivers somebody to a workplace and the workplace determines whether they stay in the trade. Most of what decides that happens in the first…
Read →When the Relationship Should End
Most mentoring relationships outlast their usefulness by several years. Ending one well is a skill, and the failure to do it costs both parties more than…
Read →Deferred Maintenance
The purest form of the stewardship trade. Each year of deferral is defensible, invisible, and transfers a cost to somebody who will hold the position when…
Read →When a Family Member Wants Out
The question nobody raises while it is easy to answer. Settled in advance it is a paragraph; settled when somebody wants their money it is a…
Read →What Debt Constrains
Borrowing is assessed on whether the payment can be made. The more consequential question is what the commitment removes from the firm's ability to respond to…
Read →The Cost of Serving
An honest account of what a seat takes from somebody, because the reassuring version recruits people who resign within a year and repels the ones who…
Read →Culture at a Second Location
A second site develops its own culture within about eighteen months. The question is not whether that happens but whether the small number of things that…
Read →The Constraints Nobody Owns
Housing and childcare determine whether a community can hold working-age people. Neither is any single institution's responsibility, which is precisely why both persist.
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