Author: Matthew

There is a meaningful difference between a conclusion drawn from a framework and a conclusion drawn from a pattern observed thousands of times across real operating companies. Jay Aldebert operates exclusively in the second category. Over twenty-five years, Aldebert has personally analyzed roughly 86,000 privately held businesses. The figure is worth pausing on. It represents not a sample but a population, a volume of direct diagnostic exposure that is, by any reasonable measure, without parallel in the small business advisory space. What that volume produces is not a theory. It is a set of recurring patterns so consistent across industries,…