🧭 What’s It Doing Now?

The Danger of Running Your Business on Autopilot

In the cockpit, there’s a story every pilot has heard about the use of autopilot, one pilot turns to the other and asks:

“What’s it doing now?”

It refers to the autopilot, when the aircraft starts climbing, turning, or behaving in unexpected ways. You ask that question to rebuild awareness, understand control, and prevent drift.

It is a good question for founders and growth leaders, too.
Because if you haven’t asked it in a while… your business might be flying itself.

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🔧 How I Help

I work with founders who’ve realised their business is flying, but maybe not toward where they thought.
Using strategy frameworks and team diagnostics, we:

• Reconnect you with what matters
• Spot drift early and make course corrections
• Upgrade systems that aren’t serving you anymore
• Re-energise your leadership before burnout creeps in

🚨 When Business Autopilot Becomes a Problem

Autopilot isn’t bad. In fact, it’s essential. You can’t scale without systems, routines, and people making decisions without you.
But trouble starts when you stop checking what the system is actually doing.

• Is your team making smart decisions—or just repeating old ones?
• Are your routines still serving your goals—or just habits now?
• Are your customers still aligned with your offer—or drifting away?

Founders often assume that something will turn up—that growth will come, alignment will return, or people will “figure it out.”
But what they really need is a simple, confronting question:

“What’s my business doing now—really?”

✈️ Autopilot Only Works When You Check the Course

In aviation, we don’t just “set and forget.” We monitor systems. We intervene when needed. We stay aware of the big picture.
In business, that means regularly checking:

• Is your strategy still relevant?
• Is your team aligned and accountable?
• Are you leading proactively—or reacting too late?

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💡 Final Thought

Autopilot is useful. But leadership requires attention.
The most important question isn’t “Where are we going?”
It’s:

“What’s it doing now?”

Let’s answer that together.

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