Fast-Growing Companies Inevitably Hit a Decision-Making Breaking Point

HBR's May 2026 editorial analysis identifies how founder-led, informal control fractures as organisations scale — typically along predictable fault lines of alignment, operational complexity, financial discipline, and governance readiness. The piece argues that what begins as decisive founder intuition becomes a structural liability when decision rights, accountability frameworks, and escalation paths are not formalised. For SEA scale-up CEOs, this is a direct call to audit which decisions still sit with the founder and build decision-log discipline before investor pressure forces the issue.