Flourishing

Name: Flourishing
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ISBN: 9781991272669

The ultimate Guide to Working on your Business

Roger Hitchcock

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KR Publishing
15 March 2026

Business strategy; Management & management techniques; Corporate governance & responsibilities

A practical guide to working ON your business - helping founders and leaders build organisations that perform well, act with integrity, and endure.

Many entrepreneurs, founders, executives and board members spend their days immersed in the urgent demands of running their businesses - solving problems, managing teams, and responding to constant operational pressures. Yet the greatest challenge for any enterprise is learning how to step back and work on the business, not only in it.

In Flourishing - The Ultimate Guide to Working ON Your Business, governance practitioner Roger Hitchcock offers a fresh and practical approach to leadership, strategy, and governance. Drawing on years of experience working with directors, founders, and leadership teams, he introduces the Adaptive Governance Framework - a powerful way of thinking that helps leaders cultivate organisations that perform well, act with integrity, and endure over time.

Using the vivid metaphors of gardening and navigation, Hitchcock shows how leaders can create the right conditions for businesses to grow and thrive. Just as a gardener cultivates soil for growth and a captain steers a ship through changing waters, effective governance requires both careful cultivation and purposeful navigation.

Through clear frameworks, practical examples, and thought-provoking questions, this book helps leaders:

understand the difference between working in and working on the business build governance systems that support growth and clarity align purpose, strategy, and decision-making navigate the different stages of the business life cycle create organisations that work, are done right, and last

Whether you are a founder, business owner, board member, or leader responsible for guiding an organisation into the future, Flourishing provides a practical roadmap for building enterprises that grow with purpose, resilience, and lasting impact.

By: Roger Hitchcock
Imprint: KR Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 281g
ISBN: 9781991272669
ISBN 10: 1991272669
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 15 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roger Hitchcock is a Strategic Governance advisor and author focused on helping organisations flourish through adaptive, ethical, and enabling governance. His work brings together purpose, strategy, structure, and values to help businesses move beyond compliance and control towards trust, coherence, and long-term value creation. I have been a key partner in helping business leaders work ON their business - and not get trapped working IN it. My work is grounded in the belief that governance should be adaptive, ethical, and enabling. I've conducted over 100 governance and board evaluations, designed diagnostic tools for startups, founder led and family businesses, and facilitated strategic retreats that unlock alignment and purpose. Whether you're navigating succession, scaling responsibly, or rethinking your board's role in a changing world, I offer a rare blend of strategic insight, governance rigour, and human-centred facilitation. Let's design governance that helps your organisation flourish - with clarity, conscience, and capability.