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No firm ever failed from a lack of effort.They fail from structure.

Most advisory practices are held together by whoever is willing to work hardest. That holds right up until it doesn't.

What firm are you running?

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Learn which of the four structures you’re running, what it’s good at, and what will limit it next. No sign-up, and no call unless you ask.

There are four structures.

One of them is yours

Every structure has a ceiling. Yours is not the same as theirs.

Solo

Nothing moves when you stop.

A solo firm runs out of hours

There is no version of the calendar that fixes it.

Silo

One sign, several businesses.

A silo runs out of consistency

The client experience depends on who picks up the phone.

Ensemble

The firm owns the client.

An ensemble runs out of clarity

More people, less certainty about who decides what.

Enterprise

It runs without you in it.

An enterprise runs out of you

It works without you in it. The last question is what it's worth when you step away.

What firm are you running?

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Thirty years in this business, and I have never once watched a firm fail because the people in it weren't trying hard enough.

JT Wiederholt, founder

JT Wiederholt, founder of The Better Advisory Firm

What we do about it

BOSS is an operating system for advisory firms. Three parts, and they only work together.

  1. A plan built from your own book

    Bottom-up from the clients you actually have, with a capacity test that tells you when the plan needs more hours than the firm owns.

  2. A meeting rhythm that holds

    A weekly operating meeting where decisions get made and commitments get dates, rather than a status update nobody acts on.

  3. A path for every seat

    Each role in the firm knows what it is held to and what comes next, so development stops depending on who asks for it.

The BOSS dashboard showing the ASPIRE path for a CFO seat: the quarter's progress, then the stages in order, with Prioritize marked as the current step.
One quarter on the ASPIRE path, from the CFO seat. Every stage is either done or it isn't, and the next move always has a name.

Start with the shape you're actually in.

It takes two minutes and costs nothing.

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