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A few years ago I was talking to a friend who ran his own business. He admitted he didn't know any other way to run a business than to grow it.

Economics is politics by other means
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed May 11th, 2011 at 09:54:48 AM EST
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I get that kind of things very often.
We get objectives, of course. Then I point out that it's impossible to achieve them with the current structure -or indeed with a slightly bigger one.

I keep getting answers that "oh but you need to sell so much, but they can be produced next year". Yes, but well since everything is over a year... we can probably use that as a proxy? But no, because we can grow!
The thing is, to reach the objectives, you need to more than double in size. They don't seem to see the problem

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Tue May 17th, 2011 at 04:48:56 AM EST
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Oh my I can see it's impossible to understand.
We must win projects, and we must produce projects. So we have a number of days for that -and over a certain rate you simply don't win projects anymore, so you have some sort of maximum daily rate.

And we have nowhere enough production days for the sales objectives.
I'm told: "but you can hire". But of course, new recruits will have commercial objectives too...

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Tue May 17th, 2011 at 04:54:22 AM EST
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A new hire is like a new child in a family. Overall productivity drops as the newcomer absorbs attention.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue May 17th, 2011 at 05:59:30 PM EST
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