Strong Revenue Growth Can Hide Serious Problems. Here’s How to See Through It.

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The numbers look great. Revenue is up. You’re beating budget. Leadership feels good walking into the quarterly review. But here’s the thing about overperformance: it can smooth over potential risks lurking in your business. When the headline number is positive, financial reviews get shorter. Questions get softer. The assumption is that if overall revenue growth […]