'Body-Building' for Non-Profits

I believe a balance must be achieved. Most of these factors like unifying mission statement to unified leadership and vision I agree to be pertinent. Yet in the early stages of growth, how do you know what to fix if you haven't started yet? Don't you have to go into the deep end of the pool before you realize you don't know how to swim / tread water?

These industry enhancers as presented in the article come across as undeniably important. The difficulty I foresee in implementing these standards are as follows:

When is it too early to build capacity?

When do you know you need to build capacity?

If you just getting established can you really afford to spend a lot of time building capacity?

An infrastructure just being created has no room for improvement, in my opinion. If the bricks just started getting laid, how do you know if you need to re-shingle the roof?

The reports emphasis on importance of every one being on the same page completely lines up with prior readings and the desire for all founding members to be like minded. I agree with this suggestion that everyone aiming at the same target will be easily guided through new strategies in order to achieve the common goal. If there are divided goals or aspirations, misaligned motives could easily skew a company between service, profit, and self promotion.

If a company starts out defining all these factors before it starts or focusing on capacity building at the start, will it be much more successful / not need future capacity building? Or would the divided resources diminish its initial growth and extinguish its success?