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# Why Founders Get Stuck as They Scale — and Don't See It Happening

A serial entrepreneur describes how founders' best habits become traps at scale, including dysfunctional board dynamics and a refusal to separate thinking from execution that distorts nearly every decision. It is directly relevant to scale-up founders who need to recognize decision bottlenecks and build board discipline before growth stalls.

Sources

FounderSherpa (https://foundersherpa.substack.com/p/why-founders-get-stuck-as-they-scale)

Topic: Decision Quality: https://lyoenandpartners.com/insights/topic/decision-quality

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