Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. -Edward Abbey
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. -Edward Abbey
We have reached a stage where we often pursue growth for growth’s sake, a condition that in medical terminology would simply be called cancer.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
We are currently trapped in the illusion of growth. The belief that all businesses should grow indefinitely. To expand their business, profits, and workforce… Everything in nature is circular, so there’s nothing natural about this growth craze.
Angelos Arnis • Designing for the last earth
Growth for the sake of growth without concern for the host is the philosophy of a cell gone mad. It’s called cancer. People have become a cancer of the earth for which there is no cure unless by some miracle of understanding we become capable of self-remission.
Dee Hock • Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 1
Growth for the sake of growth still troubles me. It seems unnatural, even perverted.
Patty Civalleri • Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
We have reached a stage where we often pursue growth for growth’s sake, a condition that in medical terminology would simply be called cancer.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness
New corporations are no better. They have scaled up features, and today's founders want hyper-growth for growth's sake (it seems like every line of code, every feature deserves its own corporation - it sure doesn't)
My Tenets
Growth, or striving for it, is, I believe, essential to the good health of an enterprise. Deliberately to stop growing is to suffocate.