When a company grows fast, it's easy to see only the good in it. The wins keep coming, so the quieter thing underneath is easy to miss. Some of the core things that fueled the company’s growth start to drift, and it rarely shows up as a culture problem at first. It shows up somewhere else, in a client commenting that things feel different or a long-term employee deciding to leave.

In this episode, Jason talks with Spencer Douglas, the chief marketing officer of BZI, about what fast growth did to a culture the company had always been proud of and how the leadership team finally recognized the problem and decided to do something about it. It's a candid look at what it actually takes to protect what makes a company special when growth is coming faster than the company is ready for.

Key highlights from the conversation:

➡️Why brand and culture are really two sides of the same coin.

➡️The early signals that a culture is starting to drift, the kind that show up in how clients talk about you before they ever show up in the numbers.

➡️What it sounds like when a leadership team stops settling for good and commit to being the best.

➡️How growing fast can quietly cost you the culture you worked hard to build and why protecting it gets harder the bigger you get.

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Connect with Spencer:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencerdouglas98/

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