The Rashomon Effect: When Competing Narratives Destroy Scale-Ups
When scale-up leadership teams carry different accounts of the same events, decisions stop being made on reality — and start being made on political capital. What Kurosawa's movie Rashomon teaches us about narrative, power and leadership team dysfunction.
When should a founder stop being the decision-maker?
Most Series A failures are not market, tech or product failures. In 80% of cases, companies fail because the leadership, culture and organisation couldn't carry the weight of what growth demanded. The funding was there. The ambition was there. The organisation was not.