You can do everything “right” and still get nowhere. We’ve both lived it, and Philip’s most embarrassing visual is also the clearest: drinking a healthy green juice while holding a cigarette. That contrast becomes the doorway into the bottleneck principle, a practical way to spot the single constraint that limits progress in your business, your leadership, and even your family life.

Some topics covered are: 

• Summer in Sicily, Etna, and a new Medici book
• Real estate, private equity, and philanthropy
• The green juice and cigarette problem
• Leaders find constraints, managers organize activity
• Removing bottlenecks and toxic team members
• Why offsites create strategic clarity
• A cadence for constraints and accountability
• Simplifying family leadership
• Using AI to reduce, not multiply, complexity
• And more…