You can grow revenue without growing leadership. For a while you won’t even notice. Then the company gets big enough that you can’t be in every room, and you find out what is actually holding it together.
Six months after the values rollout, nothing has changed. Culture work fades in three quiet, fixable places: who owns it, whether the values are real behaviors, and what reinforces them after launch.
At 150 people you could fix the culture in a hallway. At 600 the hallway is gone, and the systems that felt like freedom have become the bottleneck. Here is what to build before growth outruns you.
Only 11% of executives are satisfied with their leadership development. The gap is rarely effort; it is structure. Here are the three shifts that turn scattered programs into a system that grows leaders.