On the Origin and Intent of This Publication
Growth Plan Hub was founded in the autumn of 2017 on the premise that the strategic planning document had become, for most organizations, a quarterly performance rather than an instrument of commitment. Seven volumes later, the premise holds.
§1 — Origins
The publication began as an internal memorandum circulated among a dozen operating partners and chief financial officers who had grown dissatisfied with the quality of strategic discourse available to the mid-market. The first issue ran to eighteen pages, was printed on a borrowed press, and was mailed to sixty-three recipients. The second issue doubled that number without promotion. The third tripled it. What began as a private correspondence has become, by accident and then by design, a quarterly review.
§2 — Editorial Stance
We hold three convictions. First, that planning is not forecasting. Second, that capital allocation is the principal act of management, and that everything else is a downstream consequence. Third, that the mid-market — firms between fifty and five hundred million in revenue — is systematically underserved by the strategic literature written for either the founder or the Fortune 500.
Our tone is formal because our subject rewards formality. We publish long pieces because the questions we examine cannot be resolved in eight hundred words. We do not chase news cycles. We do not publish on platforms we do not control.
§3 — The Masthead
Our contributors are practitioners — operators, directors, advisors — who write under their own names or, where circumstances require, under a standing byline of the editors. We do not accept unsolicited sponsorship, and we do not sell placement.
§4 — Submissions
Editorial submissions are considered on the basis of existing relationships with members of the masthead. We are a small publication and our capacity is finite. New correspondence is welcomed through introduction from a current contributor or subscriber.
By appointment, by introduction.