Growth doesn’t stall because of the market hates you so much as it may be stalling because your teams have stopped talking to each other.
A likely reality: the same “professionalization” that once felt like progress — hiring specialists, creating departments, standard/repeatable process — eventually creates the next problem. What started as “one team, one mission” turns into a collection of tribes within your organization, and then: Sales blames Marketing. Delivery distrusts Sales. Finance obsesses over ratios instead of health. And the soundtrack becomes: “That’s for [insert name of some other function here] to solve.”
83% of organizations admit silos exist. 97% say they hurt performance. Translation: this isn’t a “maybe” issue. It’s happening almost everywhere.
So what’s the way out? Not another re-org, not another dashboard, and definitely not another town-hall pep talk. The only way through is to make the scoreboard all about working together on things that most directly lead to sustained growth.