Breakfast: The Paradox of Speed and Position in the Enterprise (Variable Geometries Series)
Fischetti, Antonino
Synopsis "Breakfast: The Paradox of Speed and Position in the Enterprise (Variable Geometries Series)"
A boiler no one knows how to read anymore. A son with an algorithm. A consultant with no ready-made answers. For thirty years Kofi has built his family business the way he once built its boiler: by hand, by feel, with no blueprint. Now his son Kwame wants to replace that intuition with data. Between them stands Alberto Ferri, called in not to take a side but to measure what no one has been able to see. From Tirana to Abuja, across three coffee rituals, Alberto learns to read a company the way physics reads matter. A Turkish coffee that refuses to hurry. An espresso that demands exactly two and a half seconds. A Moka that will not release a single drop until the pressure is right. Each one is a way of thinking about growth, and each one exposes the same paradox: in a family business, speed and position are not opposites. They are the same problem. Breakfast is a business novel in the tradition of the management fable: a story to be read in a few evenings, and a working method to be kept for years. Inside the book The Oriented Growth framework, applied chapter by chapter to a company in crisis Calibration, Barycenter and Traction: the three tools Alberto uses to read a business A Map of Tools and a chapter-by-chapter Narrative Bibliography Twelve chapters in three parts — The Turkish Pot, The Espresso, The Moka — with re-readings between them Book One of the Variable Geometries trilogy. Some companies are not slow. They are in the wrong orbit.