Growth Readiness Checklist: Has Decision-Making Kept Up?
- Sheridan Fisher
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read
Most organizational problems don't announce themselves as patterns. They show up as a string of individually reasonable events — a delayed approval, a reopened decision, an exception made for one client — and it's rare that anyone connects them until the cost has already added up.
This is a short, self-administered check for spotting that gap early. It takes about two minutes. It isn't a diagnosis — a pattern worth naming usually needs more evidence than a five-question checklist can hold. What it's built to do is simpler: tell you whether something you've noticed is worth a closer look, before it becomes expensive enough to force the issue.
Use it if it's relevant to what's on your mind right now. There's no form to fill out and nothing to sign up for — just use it.
Growth Readiness Checklist
For organizations where growth in revenue or headcount hasn't been matched by a change in how decisions get made.
Decisions that used to take a day now take a week, and nobody's quite sure why.
The same two or three people are copied on everything, regardless of the topic.
New hires ask “who actually decides this?” more than once in their first month.
A process that used to be informal — and worked fine — got formalized only after something went wrong, but nothing changed about why it went wrong.
Growth in revenue or headcount hasn't been matched by growth in who's allowed to make calls without checking first.
Three or more of these usually means the systems that worked at an earlier size are starting to strain quietly, well before it shows up in the numbers.
If This Sounds Familiar
This checklist isn't a verdict. It's a way of testing whether something you've already noticed deserves a closer, more structured look — the kind that separates an isolated incident from a pattern that's quietly costing time, capacity, or money.
If you want to talk through what you found, a Pattern Discovery Call is a complimentary, no-pressure conversation to clarify what's actually going on before anyone commits to anything further.
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