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The Pitfall That Dooms Fast-Growing Companies

February 20, 2014 /

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As organizations grow and age, decision makers add layers, form teams and departments, and propagate ever-more-convoluted procedures and processes. Ballooning brigades of bureaucrats must justify their existence. So they busy themselves writing more rules and requiring colleagues to jump through more hoops-stealing bandwidth from more essential work.

In the worst cases, the result is "BDC" or "Big Dumb Company" disease, as venture capitalist John Greathouse calls it. But can BDC be avoided?

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