Choose the right word

• Expanding the executive's [span of control / scaling pains / founder mode] led to bottlenecks in Seattle.
• The firm experienced severe [founder mode / scaling pains / growing complexity] after opening offices in Austin.
• They needed to institutionalise ___ best practices across the London branch. [to institutionalise / institutionalise / institutionalising] across the UK.
• When performance dipped, the CEO abruptly switched back to [founder mode / scale-up / growth stage] in New York.
• Managing the growing ___ of financial regulations in Chicago required extra legal counsel. [complexity / playbook / layer]
• During this critical growth [stage / span / pain] in Boston, cash flow must be monitored.
• The promising scale- [up / out / down] in Denver secured another round of funding.
• We quickly began to outgrow ___ informal processes in our Bristol headquarters. [our / out / over]
• Introducing a new management [layer / control / spree] in Manchester slowed down approvals.
• As a founder-led ___ in Oxford, they struggled to delegate authority. [company / playbook / pain]
• They published a comprehensive scaling [playbook / complexity / spree] for the new team in Birmingham.

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