How to Grow

This comes from the perspective of business growth. However, I think it has wider applications, even to personal and spiritual growth. But, on with the show!

In order to grow, a business must have a systematic policy to get rid of the outgrown, the obsolete, the unproductive. – Drucker

Don’t tell me what you’re doing, tell me what you’ve stopped doing. – Drucker

I would also note this is a proactive “stopped doing”, not a “I didn’t have time to do” approach – the difference is immensely important.

In short, human beings do not scale. You cannot do everything you’ve been doing since you were a child. When you went to high school, you put your childhood toys away. You grew. You took what you knew and applied it to new situations and contexts. What you knew grew into what you know. Then you went to college, etc. When your business started you had certain needs. After a few years some of those needs went away. Did the positions that filled those needs go away or change? Sure they did. This is a natural growing process. So why must we constantly choose to keep the status quo in certain areas, both personally and in business? Is it fear? It is comfort? I wish I knew. Then I might be able to approach the problem.