Passage Card · Mature Scale · Institutionalize It

The Company Becomes Bigger Than the Founder

You may recognize this when

  • I was really gone, and the company was fine.
  • The company did something great that I did not personally produce - and it still feels like my success.

The threshold

Founder-Generated Success → Organizational Capability

What changes

The company begins to produce results, judgment, quality and adaptation beyond the founder’s direct hands.

A question to test it

What recent example from your own company would confirm or rule this out?

Source: The Founder's Experience

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