When Your Business Outgrows Its Structure

Growing companies make changes all the time. Over the past year, companies using Ninety updated their Accountability Charts more than 900,000 times. That's about 55 updates per company.

To me, that looks like healthy leadership. Growing businesses are supposed to evolve, and that means the structure supporting them should evolve, too.

Teams that stay aligned don't wait until accountability gets messy before they make changes to their structure. They keep asking whether their Accountability Chart still reflects where they’re going and what Seats they need to support the next stage of growth.

That's exactly what Debra Chantry-Taylor explores in her latest article. She explains why your Accountability Chart should evolve alongside your business and how leadership teams can use it to create clarity before growing pains turn into bigger issues.

Focus Points
“The Accountability Chart® isn’t there to make you feel comfortable. It’s there to make the truth visible.”
- Debra Chantry-Taylor, Certified EOS Implementer®

Why Your EOS® Accountability Chart Has to Evolve as You Grow

Most leadership teams don’t notice their structure is outdated right away. They notice decisions taking longer, leaders holding too many responsibilities, and important work moving between departments without clear ownership.

In her recent article for Ninety, Debra Chantry-Taylor, Certified EOS Implementer® explains why The Accountability Chart® must evolve as any company grows.

She encourages leadership teams to:

• Build Seats around the needs of the business.
• Review overloaded roles before capacity becomes a larger problem.
• Create a future Accountability Chart for the next stage of growth.

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Expert EOS Implementer™ and YESS! CEO Sue Hawkes shares how teams running on EOS® can raise unspoken concerns and solve the issues blocking execution.

Today, August 3, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. ET

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Join us for the first Impact Moments Live, featuring Chad Riddersen and Josh Cohen as they share how implementing EOS® in March 2020 helped The Junkluggers stay focused through one of the most challenging business environments in recent history. 

August 5 | 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET

Ask Maz Prompt of the Week

"Does anyone appear in more than one Seat on our Accountability Chart, and where could that create a capacity risk?"

From My Desk: 5 Reasons Your Meetings Aren't Creating Traction®

At EOSCon, I asked more than 160 Visionaries, Integrators, and business leaders one question: What’s the biggest issue with your meetings?

Their answers pointed to deeper problems with communication, accountability, role clarity, and discipline. In this article, I break down the five patterns that came up most often and share practical ways to make your Level 10 Meetings® more useful.