Right Things Nailed Across Holdings
You own several companies. In every one, the team is working hard. A lot of effort, but the revenue doesn't follow, and customers keep choosing on price because nothing else stands out.
You've seen this same picture in one company, then the next, then the one after that. Each one working it out from scratch, none of them getting to the few things that would actually move the business. You own all of them, watching the same failure repeat, paying over and over for the same lesson.
One system, installed across every company you own. Start with one. Over 14 weeks, Right Things Nailed finds the few things that actually matter in that company and installs the rhythm that delivers them, so they're getting done by the end. Once it's working, the same system goes into the rest of the portfolio, built by the leadership teams themselves on the version the first company proved. Each company runs it on its own after.
What stays when it lands
The right things get done in every company you own, not just the one you start with. The level of execution across the portfolio stops depending on which leadership team works it out for itself. Every company gets to the same place, on a system that's already been proven rather than invented from scratch.
Each company builds on the last instead of starting from nothing. What works in the first becomes the floor for the next. The portfolio improves faster than any single company could on its own, because no one is solving the problem from scratch a fifth and sixth time.
Intrinsic motivation rises across the portfolio. In every company, people can see how their work connects to where it's going, with named owners and real direction. Highly structured, run by the teams themselves, so the system holds without you propping it up.
Want to nail the right things once, across your holdings, or wait for results that may never come?
How it works
The work runs in two stages, with your decision in between.
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Start with one company: the pilot. Right Things Nailed runs there over 14 weeks: the leadership team finds the few things that actually matter and installs the rhythm that gets them done. Where a company's strategy is already clear and only the rhythm is missing, the pilot can be the lighter Execution Playbook, in four weeks. The deliverable is a running system in one of your own companies, not a recommendation about the others.
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Then the rest of the portfolio installs the same system. Once the pilot works, the proven version becomes the starting point for the remaining companies, run in parallel as a cohort over the same 14 weeks. Each leadership team builds and runs it themselves, with the pilot's working system as the base, so it's theirs to keep rather than something done to them. Not a separate advisor in each company who never speaks to the others.
Format
- 14 weeks for the pilot, then 14 weeks for the rest in parallel; roughly six to nine months across the portfolio
- Your decision sits between the pilot and the rollout. You commit the rest once you've seen it run in a company you own, not before
- Half a day a week from each leadership team. No more
- Runs independently in every company afterward, with no dependency on the person who installed it
What this work doesn't do
This isn't a team of advisors running parallel engagements across the portfolio. It's one proven system, installed on a fixed shape. It isn't a value-creation deck or an operating-model design; the pilot ends with a running system, not a document for the holding company's files. It isn't leadership development; the leaders aren't learning theory, they're installing a system in companies they run. And it isn't a permanent advisory role. The installer leaves. The system stays.
Across the portfolios and groups I've worked inside, the pattern is always the same. Every company fights the same fight alone, and the rare one that gets through it keeps what it learned to itself. The companies that pull ahead are the ones that don't have to invent the answer from scratch.
This is for you if
You own or lead several companies, and you can see the same execution problem in more than one of them at the same time. A family office, a holding company, a corporate group: the structure varies, the pattern doesn't. The thing that would change each company most is the one thing none of them has installed.
You want one standard across the portfolio, proven before it rolls out. You've seen what separate advisors cost across a portfolio, and what they don't add up to: every company improving on its own track, nothing carrying between them, no system you can count on being there in all of them.
This isn't for you if
You're running a single company that needs both its strategy and its execution sorted. That's Right Things Nailed.
Your single company already has a clear strategy and what's missing is the weekly rhythm. That's the Execution Playbook.
What you want is your own judgment strengthened, one to one, rather than a system installed across companies. That's Coaching & Mentoring.
Why Argo, for this work
Pragmatic & focused
Cuts through complexity to critical drivers. 20/80 mindset. In each company that means the few things that actually change what customers will pay for, found and made real, with the strategy and the execution installed in one engagement rather than handed between two. 14 weeks per company, half a day a week from the team. Maximum leverage from the team's time, across every company you own.
Full confidence during change
Eliminates doubts during implementation. You don't commit the portfolio on a promise: the pilot runs in one of your own companies first, and you decide on the rest once you've seen the system work. Every company after the first is a decision made on proof you've already seen, not a bet you're repeating. Then the installer leaves, and each company runs it without him. Proven track record. Executives come back to say thank you.
Owner's mindset & human-centric
Thinks like an owner, not a consultant. Decisions made from the owner's side and lived with afterwards, across more than a hundred companies, plus the same system installed across companies under a single owner before, so what one company learns becomes what the next one starts from instead of staying locked inside it. Highly structured systems-thinking with deep focus on people.
Operator, not observer.
Installer, not trainer.
Bring the company in your portfolio where execution is most stuck.
A working session, not a sales call. We find what its right things actually are, and whether one proven system would clear the same wall across the rest. You leave knowing whether this is the right move for your portfolio, whether or not you book.