What Dysfunction Really Costs You

Three years into building our first company, we were exhausted—not from the work itself, but from the constant fires. The meeting-about-the-meeting culture. Talented people leaving at the worst times. Projects perpetually over budget. One sleepless night, we calculated what this chaos was actually costing us. The number: nearly $800,000 a year. Not from bad strategy or market conditions, but from completely preventable human dysfunction.

That late-night spreadsheet became this calculator, refined with data from hundreds of teams and 20 years of experience. Every team carries hidden costs that compound silently. The meeting that should've been an email? $73,000 annually for a 20-person team. Your star performer burning out? $247,000 to replace them, plus lost momentum. Communication breakdowns requiring rework? We've seen it hit seven figures.

This isn't your typical ROI calculator—it captures the invisible psychological toll that becomes financial loss. We factor in not just replacement costs, but what happens when your remaining team covers at 60% capacity from their own burnout. Not just meeting time, but recovery time after soul-crushing gatherings. You plug in your real numbers: team size, salaries, turnover rate, meeting hours, rework frequency. The calculator reveals five areas where dysfunction drains resources: burnout costs, meeting inefficiency, communication breakdowns, project gaps, and misalignment compound effects.

The number might hurt. One founder discovered her dysfunction cost was $1.2 million annually. But seeing it changed everything—she could finally justify investing in her people without guilt. Six months later, her costs dropped 70%. Not through consultants or restructuring, but by addressing root causes the calculator identified. Download it, face your number, and build the case for transformation. Sometimes the spreadsheet is where revelation happens.