Business Dad Paradox

Business Dad Paradox is the kind of puzzle our grandmothers solved without naming it. The name came later; the wisdom was always there.

The paradox resolves when you notice the two truths operate at different levels. What is lost at the counter is gained at the treasury. What feels like failure in the week is often progress in the year.

Consider the wedding caterer. Fifty dishes, three hundred guests, one small kitchen. He does not motivate his crew with speeches; he sequences the work so that nobody is ever waiting on anybody.

An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. No ceremony needed. Begin with the very next decision.