Acerca do crescimento canceroso

Ao arrepio do mainstream, na linha de "Teoria versus estatística (realidade)":

"It's conventional wisdom in business that bigger is better, and that being able to scale is an essential element of a company's success. ...

For some time, scale and scaling - meaning that a business grows to ever-greater size — have been the holy grail of the startup and corporate world. Implicitly many believe that if something doesn't scale, then it's a failure. Bigger means better, and not-bigger means failure.

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Can we say why getting bigger does not always equal success? Others have done so, including famed economist E.F. Schumacher in his book, Small Is Beautiful. There is a flaw at the heart of the concept of scaling, though it can be hard to articulate in the face of "bigger is better." Looking back to the roots of "scale" can help us pinpoint what conventional wisdom might be missing."

Alternativas à escala tradicional:

• Scaling a Model, Not a Company
• Scalling Impact, Rather than a Company
• Scaling Humanity, Instead of Scaling Companies

"If we could broaden the lens of what we consider success and scale, we might be able to create more space for a healthier, happier economy. [Moi ici: Recordar o recente "Fugir da "rat race""] Sometimes we think that because something happens on its own — Adam Smith's famous invisible hand — that makes it good. But cancer gets bigger on its own. [Moi ici: Interessante como uso a mesma linguagem aqui no blogue - crescimento canceroso] There are places where scale makes sense, but places where it does not. Perhaps one day we could celebrate a company like Huit Denim changing the conversation or an organization like Blue Hill at Stone Barns scaling a model that creates healthier farms and more delicious food as an equal, maybe even bigger, success than a tech company."

Trechos retirados de "It's time to reimagine scale"