How It Shows
- New hires are onboarded faster than they can be integrated
- Processes designed for a 30-person company are expected to work for 150
- Decisions still run through the founders
- Roles are unclear, accountability is diffuse
Typical Patterns
- Founders as the bottleneck for every significant decision
- Informal structures that make access difficult for newcomers
- Hiring treated as a solution to structural problems
- A culture of “we will figure it out” reaching its limits
What Needs to Be Decided Now
- Which decisions need to be decentralized?
- What roles and structures does the next growth phase require?
- Where is the line between deliberate flexibility and damaging chaos?
Where to Start
A sparring session clarifies which decisions need to be decentralized — and what structure will sustain the next phase.