07/09/2026
Growth is one of the biggest achievements for any company.
More customers.
More opportunities.
More employees.
But growth also introduces a challenge many organizations underestimate:
Coordination.
A company that works efficiently with a small team does not automatically work efficiently after significant expansion.
At the beginning, businesses rely on shared context and direct communication.
People know what is happening.
They understand customer needs.
They solve problems quickly.
But as teams grow, those informal systems become harder to maintain.
Common signs include:
• Different departments working with different information
• Processes changing depending on who handles them
• More meetings just to stay aligned
• Leadership becoming the bridge between every team
• Employees spending more time searching for information
The problem is not that people became less capable.
The company simply became more complex than its operating model could support.
Scalable organizations do not remove people from the process.
They create systems that help talented people work together more effectively.
Clear workflows.
Reliable information.
Defined responsibilities.
Better coordination.
That is how companies grow without increasing unnecessary complexity.
We explore this idea in more detail in our latest article:
🔗 Read the full article:
Most companies don’t have a scaling problem. They have a coordination problem.
https://sixtenet.com/blog/most-companies-dont-have-a-scaling-problem-they-have-a-coordination-problem