Field Notes

Ideas from inside the work.

Practical observations about building, financing, operating, and improving private clubs.

Capital Discipline

The $20,000 tree job that wants to become a $50,000 tree job.

Capital discipline is not the same as cutting corners.

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Integration

Every expert can be right—and the project can still be wrong.

Specialist excellence does not automatically create an integrated business.

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Operating Model

Opening day is not the strategy.

The durable business begins after the ribbon cutting.

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Useful enough to change a decision.

Field Notes are not produced to fill a content calendar. Each should come from real work, make a practical point, and give an owner a better question to ask.

A Decision of Your Own

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