Continuous Growth?
As you enter continuous growth, you will again notice red flags popping up all around you, indicating that your leadership role needs to change again. Moving into Continuous growth can feel like flying into a thunderhead. The turbulence keeps increasing as you successfully ride the waves.

Here are some of the red flags that tell you you're entering the Continuous Growth stage:

1. As you spend more and more time outside the company, building external relationships, finding strategic partners, being a spokesperson, talking to analysts, and doing road shows to raise money. At the same time you worry about your management team's ability to run the business without you.
2. You need to solve more complex problems, and the old ways of handling them won't work.
3. The organization seems unwieldy and is entering turbulence.
4. You don't have enough time for vial strategic tasks; you wonder whether you need a COO to run operations.
5. People don't seem to understand the new growth strategy or share your sense of urgency about the demands for fundamental change.
6. You believe in the need for change but also worry about throwing the company into chaos with too much change.
7. One or more members of your management team are driving you crazy.
8. It feels like you are constantly communicating but people aren't "getting it".
9. Managers complain about the decision-making process and say decisions aren't clear.
10. People accuse you of micromanaging and not empowering them.
11. You're seriously considering an IPO or a big acquisition, but you're worried what that will do to the culture of your company.
12. Keeping an entrepreneurial culture seems impossible.
13. People you count on and want to keep are leaving the company.