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The Last World

The Last World Growth A recession, which everybody seems to agree is the econo­ "Today [1959] convenience is my's current state, means growth prospects for business the success factor of just are less than rosy. (Officially, "recession" is defined as: "A about every type of product temporary downturn in economic activity, usually indicated and service that is showing by two consecutive quarters of a falling GDP.") Given that steady growth." reality, we now take a moment to reflect on what growth is, Charles G Mortimer what it means, and what its downsides are. "Growth is the only evidence "What is the most rigorous "The growth of a large of life." law of our being? Growth. No business is merely a survival John Henry Newman smallest atom of our moral, of the fittest" mental, or physical structure John D. Rockefeller "Do you want my one-word can stand still a year. it secret of happiness—It's grows—it must grow; noth­ "Growth for the sake of growth—mental, financial, ing can prevent it " growth is the ideology of the you name it " Mark Twain cancer cell." Harold S. Geneen Edward Abbey "All growth depends upon "Growth demands a tempo­ activity. There is no "Since life is growth and rary surrender of security." development... without effort, motion, a fixed point of view Gail Sheehy and effort means work." kills anybody who has one." Calvin Coolidge Brooks Atkinson "If it's not growing, it's going to die." "All growth is a leap in the "Growth, in some curious way, Michael Eisner dark, a spontaneous, I suspect, depends on being unpremeditated act without always in motion just a Iittle "There are no such things as benefit of experience." bit, one way or another." limits to growth, because Henry Miller Norman Mailer there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder." Ronald Reagan "Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists." Noam Chomsky "The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better." Eric Johnston 48 | January/February 2002 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Business Strategy Emerald Publishing

The Last World

Journal of Business Strategy , Volume 23 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 2002
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Growth A recession, which everybody seems to agree is the econo­ "Today [1959] convenience is my's current state, means growth prospects for business the success factor of just are less than rosy. (Officially, "recession" is defined as: "A about every type of product temporary downturn in economic activity, usually indicated and service that is showing by two consecutive quarters of a falling GDP.") Given that steady growth." reality, we now take a moment to reflect on what growth is, Charles G Mortimer what it means, and what its downsides are. "Growth is the only evidence "What is the most rigorous "The growth of a large of life." law of our being? Growth. No business is merely a survival John Henry Newman smallest atom of our moral, of the fittest" mental, or physical structure John D. Rockefeller "Do you want my one-word can stand still a year. it secret of happiness—It's grows—it must grow; noth­ "Growth for the sake of growth—mental, financial, ing can prevent it " growth is the ideology of the you name it " Mark Twain cancer cell." Harold S. Geneen Edward Abbey "All growth depends upon "Growth demands a tempo­ activity. There is no "Since life is growth and rary surrender of security." development... without effort, motion, a fixed point of view Gail Sheehy and effort means work." kills anybody who has one." Calvin Coolidge Brooks Atkinson "If it's not growing, it's going to die." "All growth is a leap in the "Growth, in some curious way, Michael Eisner dark, a spontaneous, I suspect, depends on being unpremeditated act without always in motion just a Iittle "There are no such things as benefit of experience." bit, one way or another." limits to growth, because Henry Miller Norman Mailer there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder." Ronald Reagan "Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists." Noam Chomsky "The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better." Eric Johnston 48 | January/February 2002

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