The Importance of a Good Culture in an Organization

We grew too fast because for us we used to hire 10 people and we had worked for 20. The problem is that the junior executive, the manager and the person who was heading the department have joined at the same time. So it took almost like the blind leading the blind. What were the symptoms that you needed to cut? Was it a profitability that you saw your profitability is coming down or was it more like a gut feel that we have too many people?