Big projects feel like wins… until you realize they’re suffocating your cash flow. Here’s the truth most founders learn too late: Margin is made on the big jobs, but cash is saved by the small

If you have to make every decision, growth slows. List your top 10 recurring decisions, assign them to trusted leaders, and hold them responsible for results. Email : strategy@obsidianthorne.com to

Obedience is for losers.Don’t play by the rules. Founders who win take ground. Obedience doesn’t build empires. Vision does. If you’re waiting for permission, you’ve already lost ground.

Transfer of Knowledge: Estimation to PM Most margin loss happens in the handoff. Not in the field. Not in the final invoice. In the quiet moment where Estimating assumes PM already knows. Email :

Ask your lead for their top three metrics. Silence means it’s time to upgrade. A real leader knows their numbers. Not eventually. Not after checking a spreadsheet. On demand. Silence is the sound

Busy is not the same as productive. Objection: “We already have people or processes.” 🚨 Do those people give you control, or just consume payroll? The fix = structure: ✔ Dashboards ✔

Your Best Player Is Costing You Margin Your best performer might not be the problem, but the way you’ve built around them could be. When everything bends to one person’s success, systems break.

How to know which change to make first : Start with the data When everything feels broken, leaders default to opinion, emotion, or the loudest voice in the room. That’s how bad priorities get

You can see the dry spell coming, if you’re paying attention. Two months out from finishing a project and no new jobs in play? That’s not momentum. That’s a cliff. It takes 60–120 days to

Every missed detail and wrong order is silent theft from your profit.