
Leadership Lessons from 2021
Over time, the cumulative cost of this structural drag erodes EBITDA without ever surfacing as a distinct line item on financial scorecards.
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Margin protected by removing the Drift Tax, not by another training cycle.

Over time, the cumulative cost of this structural drag erodes EBITDA without ever surfacing as a distinct line item on financial scorecards.

This hidden expense creates margin compression across operational units that rarely appears as an explicit line item on standard accounting scorecards.

While traditional financial reporting does not isolate this drag into a single line item, it directly erodes operational margins and EBITDA predictability.

The remaining eighty-eight percent revert to legacy habits under operational stress, costing mid-market enterprises millions in unmeasured margin erosion.