Most companies break themselves at scale. The ones that don't are the ones that scaled with the grain, not against it.
Scale amplifies what you already are. Including the bits you'd rather it didn't.
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Wood has a grain. So does every organisation. Cut with it and the work compounds; cut against it and you spend the rest of the…
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