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Business Succession Planning
This Deep Dive explains why founders avoid succession planning, how to choose among exit routes, when to start, how to identify and develop a successor, why handovers fail, how family-business succession adds complexity, and what the psychology of exiting does to founders after the deal is done.
This Deep Dive explains what product-market fit actually means, why it is a spectrum rather than a binary event, how to measure it with real signals instead of intuition, how to diagnose what is blocking it, and how to decide when to persist versus pivot.
This Deep Dive explains how strong turnarounds work in practice: act before certainty, distinguish a cash crisis from a product-market-fit crisis, stabilise first, return to first principles, and rebuild demand, people decisions, and financial structure with honesty and speed.