Growth Debt: The Silent Killer Of Your Organization’s Potential

How to find out if your organization is struggling with ‘growth debt’ and what to do about it?

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Have you been hearing faint echoes like the ones below within your company?

• You know, this place is not the same anymore.
• I play meeting Tetris all day long, and I get exhausted at the end of the day despite not accomplishing anything meaningful.
• The company has grown so fast so soon that I feel left behind, and I don’t even get to know the critical decisions on time.
• Everything seems to be run by a committee now.
• I don’t know who is accountable for <insert the group name.>Now, I have to send emails to different people to get anything moving.
• No one has set expectations or coached me to do my job well.

Wait! Don’t answer that. You can hear such sentiments in any company out there. Well…except if that company was incorporated yesterday(yes, literally yesterday) or a company that doesn’t believe in growth. You hear these emotions reverberated due to poor organization design, sometimes because of conscious choices, and most of the time because of Growth Debt.