Always and Forever
Companies of one instead focus on stability, simplicity, independence, and long-term resilience and rely on starting small and becoming as profitable as possible, without the need for outside investment.
Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
The Bigger, the Not-So-Better
Matthew Dicks • Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
Research from the University of
Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
So as organizations grow in scale, the result, as many of us feel intuitively, is the concomitant loss of creativity, flexibility, curiousity, and humanity. Mega scale organizations are not, generally speaking, very nice places to work at, shop at, or do business with, are they? That is why they are always fighting their very own inertia. Like any ... See more
umair haque • Why We Need to Build Human-Scale Organizations
He questions the blind growth mind-set because he doesn’t require it. If he were to double his profits, like his friend was trying to do, how much more work would be involved? How would that extra work affect his family or his life overall?