In our work with business owners and leadership teams, we often see firms that "get stuck" at a certain size and can't seem to breakthrough. We refer to the threshold they hit as the ceiling of complexity, and it limits a firm's ability to grow past a specific point. To illustrate how complexity can grow in an organization, imagine a two-employee company. In this situation, there are two interrelationships in the firm. Add one more employee, and now there are six interrelationships. With four employees you jump from six to 24 interrelationships.
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