📌 4 — Cross-functional trust is a superpower

The fastest scaling companies I’ve known aren’t the ones with the most talent. They’re the ones where functions genuinely trust each other.

Trust speeds up everything:

• Decisions
• Delivery
• Innovation
• Feedback
• Recovery from mistakes

Conversely, the cost of mistrust is enormous — duplicated work, endless meetings, defensive emails, and silent escalation wars.

As a CFO, I see this clearly:

Companies don’t scale because of tools. They scale because of trust.

Build that, and everything else accelerates.