Too small to succeed

"Too big to fail" is the popular term of the moment but sometimes managers can make the mistake of thinking the opposite is true i.e. that their business or department is too small to succeed.  This particular manifestation is when companies put off common best practices using the excuse that they are for big companies only.  Implementing processes and procedures is a great example of this where managers will cite they do not have time or that they do not want to be slowed down by needless bureaucracy.  This is simply an excuse for poor planning because the reality is that the difference between big companies and small companies should not be whether they have processes and procedures - they both need them to survive -  it is at what level of detail those procedures should be written.