Costs were climbing | energy, inputs, overheads, everything. And almost every question I got back was about the top line: how do we grow sales, how do we hit our targets?

The plans were ambitious. But for many sales weren't landing where they hoped, and margins were quietly thinning underneath.

Here's the real tension. Everyone set their 2026 targets at the start of the year. Then the ground moved: a border closure, an energy-cost spike,... The target is still the target. But the cost of reaching it has changed underneath everyone's feet.

Rethinking KPIs

What is the one number in your business that, if you moved it by

10%, would change everything downstream?

Elon Musk:Two Ideas That Stopped Me Mid-Chapter

What in your organization are you optimizing that you should first be questioning?

The Godfather: The Evolution of Leadership in Family

Business
In your organization, who holds the Vito perspective and who holds the Michael perspective and are they actually talking?