Growthing people out
Vince, meet Michael. Michael, Vince…
So somewhere in the trenches on the continuum that stretches from helping others selflessly to Lamborghinis and supermodel wives, there’s a crumpled up sticky-note with this compound question written on it:
What does it mean to be a high-growth company and why should anybody give a damn?
One possible answer: the National Commission On Entrepreneurship says a high-growth company is one that grows their employment by at least 15 percent per year or at least doubles their employment over five years.
One possible take: Those comments we heard at the evening event, the ones stressing the importance of high-growth companies in our region, maybe had less to do with selling to Google for $100 million, having nice things, or engaging in altruism, and more to do with keeping and improving our region’s economic health.
-pete
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November 6th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Thanks Pete, for breaking the post down to facts. Dealing with facts help us cut through the muck and the mire and, at least, acts as a guide to somewhere close to the truth.
For the gap in what I heard was the absence of growth. A contentment to just be what you is. And there are enough tales of woe out there from companies who no longer exist that if you aren’t moving forward, you might as well be moving backward.
I’m reminded of the Far Side, where the sheep is in a pen full of other sheep and he rises and screams at the top of his lungs, “We don’t have to be just sheep!”
And our region’s economic health seems to be filled with sheep right now. And I think there were more than a couple of people at highlight midwest who remind us that we can be so much more.