Olly Hughes
The Steward
Legacy, values and the long now, leadership as care and continuity.
Olly Hughes exemplifies the Steward archetype across this interview, consistently framing forestry leadership through the lens of long-term custodianship of both natural and financial capital. He repeatedly anchors his thinking in multi-decade timescales, explicitly advocating a shift from five-year to twenty-year planning horizons.
“I used to measure my operations on five-year plans, and I think I'm now changing my aspirations to 20-year plans. I would encourage anyone young to make a 20-year plan, not a five-year plan.”
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“We've got to make sure that we continue to realize the value of both of those and not assume that all productive forestry is bad and that all natural broadleaf forestry is good. We have to find that balance.”
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“With a forest you don't tend to go in and cut the whole forest down all in one. What we look to do is build across our portfolios a spread of age and diversity which gives you that long-term cash yield.”
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Money Maze Podcast: “Forestry Investing: Growth & Carbon Credits - Olly Hughes of Gresham House”
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