Is Slow Growth Better Than No Growth?
The easy answer is, yes. Slow growth is probably happening all around you, sometimes you don’t even realize it. Yet, a lack of action can lead to no growth, and worse, decline.
The operating environment lovingly known as Windows was first released in 1985. It’s grown a lot in 35+ years.
It may have been hard to see it growing from day-to-day but over longer periods it is easier to see.
Much of your daily environment has been changing and growing across months, years, and decades. In addition to computing products, look at transportation, radio and television, and even kitchen appliances. Growth, and lots of it.
People often take for granted what is happening for the development process. Whether it is a technology device or professional growth.
Change and growth often go hand-in-hand, but change can also lead to decline. Stopping or stalling is often the first indication that some decline is about to emerge.
My belief is that the airline industry has declined. The service and reliability of schedules has been in deep decline since the 1990s. While there are many influences and factors, from my experiences, it is a fact. It’s declining.
What are your personal aspirations? Are you growing personally or professionally, or have you stalled, or worse?
Slow Growth
There are many metaphorical expressions and evidence of unrecognized growth. Trees are a great example, they seem to grow very slow, then suddenly, with a more intentional observation, they are big.
Something big or something small, there is change every day.
An idea, an expression, or even an opportunity to see something differently than you have before.
People learn to listen better (hearing is instinctual, listening is a developed skill), observe better, and even be more empathic or generous.
Stops or stalls don’t last very long. As quickly as they happen, without appropriate action they are just about to decline.
This is exactly why whatever is happening in your environment, you need to change. It may be slow, almost unnoticed, but across time it still matters.
Slow growth is always better than no growth.
-DEG
Dennis E. Gilbert is a business consultant, speaker (CSPTM), and culture expert. He is a five-time author and the founder of Appreciative Strategies, LLC. His business focuses on positive human performance improvement solutions through Appreciative Strategies®. Reach him through his website at Dennis-Gilbert.com or by calling +1 646.546.5553.
