Your Culture Can Make You Unsellable: The $50M Warning Sign? [Episode 228]

Most EBITDA erosion doesn’t start in the market. It starts in the room.
When leaders believe they need all the answers, teams stop challenging assumptions. Problems surface late. Accountability softens. Innovation slows.
Nothing dramatic happens. Revenue may even hold steady.
But margins thin. Decisions lag. Clients feel the drag before leadership does.
Avoidance becomes cultural. Culture becomes financial. And over time, profitable companies quietly become unsellable.
This conversation examines how leadership behavior compounds into enterprise value risk — and why the cost rarely shows up until options are already narrowing.