Bearings
It's the End of the World as We Know It. Payroll Is Still Due Friday.
The morning after Election Day, customers still buy and payroll is still due. A fractional CFO's guide to separating noise from the assumptions that matter.
The Hatchet Man Always Sends a Bill: What the Election of 1800 Teaches Leaders About Competing on the Record
Today's midterms are the most expensive in history. Attack ads aren't new, though. In 1800, Thomas Jefferson quietly paid a pamphleteer to smear John Adams, and two years later that same writer turned on him. Washington's Rules of Civility explain what went wrong, and why it matters for founders and their companies.