The Hidden Cost of Hypergrowth

To stand the test of time, fast-growing organizations need scalable systems in place.

The excitement of hypergrowth feels like you’re capturing lightning in a bottle. But rapidly expanding organizations often discover the destructive side of hypergrowth—which can derail progress, damage culture, and leave leaders wondering: What now?

This kind of fast-paced growth is akin to filling up your beat-up sedan with rocket fuel. Even without the right equipment, you’ll zoom along for a little while—but before long, you could lose control and crash.

Building Systems and Cultures That Last

Organizations undergoing rapid growth often find that their existing infrastructure can’t scale with them. Knowing how to get the right systems and the right people in place will make all the difference between being a flash in the pan and standing the test of time.

Don’t let phenomenal success become an untenable crisis.

When you’re in the hypergrowth phase, building an intentional strategy—combined with effective leadership and execution excellence—will help you harness hypergrowth, rather than buckle under the pressure.

What got you here can’t always get you to where you need to go next. We can help your leaders identify and communicate the most important goals, deliver results, and build cultural systems that can sustain rapid growth—all without losing momentum or what makes your organization special.

Resources to successfully manage hypergrowth:
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The Challenge of Hypergrowth
 

Experiencing the lightning-in-a-bottle stage of hypergrowth can be exciting, but it’s also chaotic and risky. To avoid losing it all, high growth companies need the right people and systems in place to scale and sustain what they’ve built.
 

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Building Organizational Agility
 

In today’s volatile business landscape, organizational agility has become the defining factor of long-term success. The ability to respond quickly to market shifts, embrace new technologies, and adapt internal processes gives agile companies a competitive edge.

Free Guide
Best Practices for Powering Organizations to New Heights of Performance

Changing an organization takes the focus of a rocket launch. This is your mission control. The goal is to get into orbit, where your new initiative becomes a collective habit, the ride is smooth, and the sense of accomplishment is high.
 

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In the last three years, Hoag has nearly doubled their number of employees to almost 9,000. The more growth they experienced, the more leadership at Hoag noticed a need to align expectations of newly hired and promoted leaders.

— See our case study below to learn how Hoag exceeded their goal of training leaders.

How We’ve Helped Hypergrowth Companies/Clients

Hoag

Aligning Leadership Expectations Amid Growth

In the last three years, Hoag has nearly doubled their number of employees to almost 9,000. The more growth they experienced, the more leadership at Hoag noticed a need to align expectations of newly hired and promoted leaders. Hoag leaders—whether hired internally or externally— varied on leadership focus, which led to inconsistent employee experience across locations.

Centiro

Scale and Grow

Centiro, a cloud-based software company for transportation management and logistics, uses The 7 Habits to effectively scale and grow.

WCF Insurance

Implemented a Trusted System That Saved Them Millions

At WCF Insurance, 100 years of service meant that they needed to expand within their market to continue their upward trajectory. Read how WCF utilized Leading at the Speed of Trust and The 4 Disciplines of Execution to grow their organization and achieve their goals.

Raymour & Flanigan

Foundational Leadership Development

Raymour & Flanigan identified skill gaps among mid-level leaders, particularly in shifting perspectives and adopting new paradigms. They utilized the The 7 Habits in key areas for growth, including core competencies like proactivity, prioritization, active listening, team building, collaboration, and fostering trust-based relationships.

Sustain your growth without losing what made you great.

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