If an organization hits Treadmill, and does not arrest the over-growth of systems, policies and procedures, it will eventually become arthritic - brittle and inflexible.

At this point, the organization has become a Bureaucracy - uniformity is emphasized, and process is all.

An organization in Bureaucracy epitomizes the saying: "We have everything around here working perfectly. It's the customers that screw things up."

Falling from Treadmill to Bureaucracy is a highly dangerous step - Predictable Success™ has moved more than one 'change' away, and the demise of the organization can be perilously imminent.