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Growth. There’s lots of talk about it.
Sessile animals, for example, sponges or coral, live their lives fixed in one place. Food comes to them. You might thing that they’ve got it made. But, in an emergency, as when their natural defenses fail them, almost none have the ability to move. It’s all over.
Growth. There’s lots of talk about it.
Bureaucratic sorts are drawn to numbers because numbers can be gathered and processed and manipulated, all with the goal of lifetime employment for those bean counters.
Life’s good and “efficient,” a common meme in healthcare. But, like a sponge, when conditions change, they can neither change with the times nor change location, at least not until it’s too late.
What are you in business to do? What do your customers need? What do your customers expect? How do you deliver what’s important to them? How do you go beyond that to delight them?
Growth for growth’s sake isn’t a strategy. It’s just a tactic, the tactic of getting bigger.
Growing your business doesn’t always make it more profitable. If it did, General Motors would never have gone into bankruptcy.
In almost every area of society, the change is away from big, away from corporate (or at least traditional corporate), toward small.
