Financial performance is closely correlated to organizational culture. The early symptoms of decay of organizational culture can sometimes hint you the path the company will take in terms of financial performance. At the same time, it can hint at what needs to be fixed.
Some typical symptoms of degrading organizations may include people spending much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting and broken processes. They are not aligned with organization’s vision or mission and are not clear how the hard jobs they are doing are aligned with the vision. The organizational bureaucracy takes over and decisions happen top down only. To make it all worse, rubbing salt in the wound, when employees finally work up the courage to tell management how screwed-up their situation is, management denies there is a problem, defends the status quo, and ignores the problem. Everyone takes the easy route, in other words, shortcuts to personal success, and, of course, least bothered about the growth of the team.
These symptoms, if diagnosed well in advance and addressed suitably can contain the decline, else the organization will surely head towards a catastrophe sooner than later.