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Strongest signal
People Lever looks like your strongest signal.
What this means
People Lever is the lag between how the business has grown and how its people structure has kept pace. The most common form is role drift: the people who were right for the business at an earlier stage are now in positions that have quietly outgrown what they were hired to do. Nobody made a deliberate choice for this to happen. Growth did.
The second form is capability gap. There are things the business needs to be able to do that nobody currently inside it can credibly do. This might be a leadership capability, a technical skill, or simply a way of thinking that the existing team doesn't have. Businesses often compensate with workarounds — outsourcing, splitting the problem, leaving it undone — rather than naming the gap directly.
People Lever is the most politically charged of the five because addressing it involves having direct conversations about fit. That's uncomfortable. It's also the category where delay compounds fastest.
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