Why Most SOPs Fail — and How to Write Ones People Actually Use
Most companies don’t hate SOPs — they hate bad SOPs.
Most companies don’t hate SOPs — they hate bad SOPs.
Founders hear “design for scale” and immediately panic. They imagine future org charts, enterprise tooling, airtight SOPs, and dashboards no one actually looks at yet. So they start building—everything—early. More process. More structure. More complexity. That’s the trap.
At this stage, operational excellence isn’t about perfection. It’s about building a business that doesn’t collapse when things finally start working.