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GROWTH SLUDGE: DO YOU SEE IT IN YOUR COMPANY?

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Universal truth: Ants find spilled potato salad at a picnic at light speed.

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Universal truth: A growing firm attracts sludge.

Sludge: Invisible substance that impairs performance and clutters thinking.

It’s discovered in its effect, but seldom seen, like the wind.

This mysterious reality will choke a growing business unless it’s attacked like Kudzu.

How many of its symptoms can you find in your company? Answer yes or no:

  1. People frequently work on less important tasks.
  2. Blaming sometimes replaces problem solving.
  3. We react superbly to problems.
  4. We’re often surprised by problems.
  5. We haven’t licked our long-standing problems.
  6. Departments operate independently, except when they’re forced to cooperate.
  7. Customer concerns are handled as they arise, instead of proactively.
  8. Leaders are hands-on to prevent sloppy work.
  9. We’re having trouble handling more work.

Scoring: (A partial yes is a yes.)

1-2 Yes answers:    Leadership is ahead of the sludge.

3-9 Yes answer:      The Sludge is winning, and your firm is at risk.

 

What to do: Accept the need for you and your leaders to change how you lead, now.

 

Moving away from top-down leadership defies common sense, since it’s gotten you here. Hanging on to it will carry you and your company into the sludge of failure.

 

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