Insights for CEOs who want profitable growth

Practical frameworks and straight talk from Bill Canady — built for leaders who are done with complexity and ready to execute.

Insights for CEOs who want profitable growth

Practical frameworks and straight talk from Bill Canady — built for leaders who are done with complexity and ready to execute.

July 8, 2026

The turnaround sequence I have used for thirty years is five steps in a fixed order: visibility first,...

BC Post 12 - The EBITDA Bridge on One Page

July 8, 2026

I explain every plan I run — a $1.5B industrial platform, a turnaround, a bolt-on thesis — to every board...

July 7, 2026

I run a board meeting in ninety minutes, and I open every one of them the same way: with the gap. Not...

BC Post 09 - What Sponsors Get Wrong About Their CEOs

July 7, 2026

Here is what sponsors get wrong about their CEOs: you assume alignment because the budget got signed,...

BC Post 10 - What CEOs Get Wrong About Their Sponsors

July 7, 2026

Here is what CEOs get wrong about their sponsors: you treat the sponsor as a boss to be managed instead...

July 7, 2026

The bravest thing a CEO can do is make the business deliberately smaller before trying to make it bigger....

July 4, 2026

Before any company I run, chair, or advise spends a dollar on growth, I apply one test: take material...

July 4, 2026

Which role is your leadership team missing? In thirty years of running and chairing industrial companies,...

July 4, 2026

The Three Locks are how I get a board, a plan, and a team to agree — and to stay agreed when the first...

BC Post 04 - The First 100 Days in a New Seat

July 3, 2026

When I take a new seat, my first 100 days follow the same sequence every time: Weeks 0–2 involve cutting...

July 3, 2026

Running a $1.5B PE-backed industrial company taught me one thing about sponsors above all the others:...

BC Post 02 - Why 70 Percent of PE CEOs Get Replaced

July 2, 2026

Roughly seven out of ten CEOs of private-equity-backed companies do not survive the hold. Most of the...

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