# Metadata Source URL:: https://slow-growth.com/2022/03/04/software-makers-and-society.html Topics:: #business, #management --- # Slow Growth - Software Makers & Society The last decades saw young, technology-enabled companies beat huge, traditional enterprises across all market sectors. We saw these companies create whole new business categories out of (apparent) thin air. The phenomenon was so remarkable, a whole new category for how fast companies can grow was created: hypergrowth. ## Highlights > [!quote]+ Updated on 071122_152839 > > Research10 has gone far into making tangible those aspects of company culture that are shared by high-performing organisations. > >Often these companies operate in small, cross-functional teams with end-to-end ownership, highly autonomous in their daily operations, but also highly aligned to shared and understood business goals. The generative type of organisational culture as outlined by Westrum11 provides a broad but actionable description of the types of corporate culture we should be striving for. > [!danger]+ Updated on 071122_152919 > > High performing organisations are obsessively disciplined about their metrics, usually choosing a specific one – a ‘North Star Metric’12 – to track overall business performance. Teams then break this metric down to its smallest components in detailed KPI trees13