The Pandemic? - 'Tis but a scratch...

https://youtu.be/ZmInkxbvlCs

The nature of healthy growth is pretty straightforward. Whether a plant, animal, business or society, the essential elements are the same. We take in nutrients from our surroundings, meet our basic needs, and everything we don't need for basic survival gets channelled into growth. Then, more of those nutrients get used for maintenance and repair and replacing parts that die as we age. Eventually, the balance tips, and we leave the stage to make way for those that follow.

We seem to be ignoring that in business. As a society, changes in technology have damaged vast swathes of our physical and social infrastructure. The pandemic has added to that. Yet all the rhetoric seems to ignore the fact that we cannot grow until we have repaired what can be repaired and let what needs to leave the stage go on its way.

It reminds me of the classic scene from Monty Python of the Black Knight. "T'is but a flesh wound," we say and charge onwards for growth regardless, whilst …