Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse
While technical debt is an understood problem, it turns out startups also accrue another kind of debt – one that can kill the company even quicker – organizational debt. Organizational debt is all the people/culture compromises made to "just get it done" in the early stages of a startup. Just when things should be going great, organizational debt can turn a growing company into a chaotic nightmare. Growing companies need to understand how to recognize and "refactor" organizational debt.
Source: steveblank.com