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Quality Patterns Deck
A comprehensive collection of patterns identified in enduring enterprises, with visual frameworks and practical applications.
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Research, insights, and conversations from our work with founders and families building businesses designed to improve with time.
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Our comprehensive deck exploring how quality compounds over time in business systems. Drawing from decades of research into enduring enterprises, this resource provides frameworks for recognizing and building quality at every level.
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Core inquiries that guide our research and shape our understanding of what makes enterprises endure across generations.
SYSTEMS & ADAPTATION
Our research into century-old companies reveals specific organizational patterns: they prioritize maintenance over innovation, build redundancy into critical systems, and cultivate adaptive capacity.
QUALITY & CRAFT
Quality emerges from complex system properties that individual parts don't exhibit. Like identifying a future oak in an acorn, recognizing nascent quality requires understanding patterns of potential.
TIME & MAINTENANCE
Geoffrey West's research shows that organisms dedicate increasing energy to maintenance as they mature. We see parallel patterns in enduring businesses that shift from growth-obsession to excellence.
VALUE CREATION
Peter Kaufman identifies "deserved trust" as creating compound returns through reduced transaction costs, expanded opportunity access, and resilience during disruptions.
LEADERSHIP & CULTURE
Todd Combs notes that founders operate as fiduciaries with radically longer time horizons. They make decisions that seem irrational quarterly but compound advantageously over generations.
RESILIENCE & RISK
Century-old companies build strategic redundancy into critical systems while maintaining operational efficiency—a paradox that creates both resilience and competitive advantage.
FRAMEWORK
A comprehensive collection of patterns identified in enduring enterprises, with visual frameworks and practical applications.
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An interactive spreadsheet tool for identifying and analyzing patterns in companies built for multi-generational success.
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Practical applications of complexity science and systems thinking to business strategy and organizational design.
Read MoreDeep explorations of quality, systems thinking, and building for the long term
Our collection of essays exploring the intersection of quality, time, and business building. From the nature of maintenance to the patterns of century-old companies, these pieces offer frameworks for thinking about enduring value creation.
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Conversations exploring the patterns that lead to enduring excellence across disciplines
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Join us for thoughtful discussions with leaders of century-old businesses, master craftspeople, systems thinkers, and quality-focused founders. Each episode explores what it takes to build something worthy of lasting.
Each episode features in-depth conversations with leaders who have built something worthy of lasting. From century-old family businesses to master craftspeople, we explore the patterns and principles that create enduring value.
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Our AI analyst draws on decades of research into century-old companies, systems thinking principles, and patterns of enduring enterprises. Ask questions, explore frameworks, and discover how these principles apply to your specific context.
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