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Why Hiring More People Doesn’t Fix Margin Pressure When margins tighten and demand continues, most leaders reach for...
Economic pressure doesn’t usually destroy organizations overnight.
Every recession reshuffles the same deck.
When margins start to erode, the reflexive response is predictable.
Most business leaders are conditioned to watch one number first: revenue.
By the time organizations reach a certain level of maturity, most of the obvious problems have been addressed.
Most leadership teams don’t realize they have a leadership bench problem until growth starts to hurt.
Most leadership teams don’t think they have a leadership bench problem.
Leadership today feels like babysitting vendors, managing customer chaos, and cleaning up other people’s bad decisions.