growth: the process of positively developing or maturing
On Growth is a three-month-long blog project hosted by the Centre for Enterprise, meant to express various views about growth--from personal to business. We have assembled a collection posts from academics, business consultants and owners, social enterprisers and bloggers centred around growth. Please take a look at our ever-expanding set of submissions from our esteemed contributors!
Our contributions:
Anyonita Green
Centre for Enterprise AssociateThe Importance of Allowing Personal Growth to Influence Business Growth
"There comes a time to realise that changing things isn’t synonymous with forgetting."
Centre for Enterprise AssociateThe Importance of Allowing Personal Growth to Influence Business Growth
"There comes a time to realise that changing things isn’t synonymous with forgetting."
"To continue to move forward in business, especially those a very niche enterprise, we must be willing to embrace innovation and not to embrace it flippantly as an empty word without much meaning."read more
Janet Green
Business owner
"'When is enough growth enough?’ It is perhaps for me when I see these boundaries and decide that I don’t want to address them." read more
Walli Ullah
Media Entrepreneur
How Growth Happens
Media Entrepreneur
How Growth Happens
"Organic growth is usually more gradual and controllable than mergers or acquisition, however it still needs to be managed. ... Without a plan, you'll run the risk of damaging your existing business because problems can become much bigger with growth." read more
Anne Craig
Knowledge Transfer Adviser
Growth
"Those with a remit to support business growth have become used to speaking of growth not in living organism terms, but in terms of business profitability and economic growth. Both are needed desperately, given the dire daily news headlines." read more
Growth
"Those with a remit to support business growth have become used to speaking of growth not in living organism terms, but in terms of business profitability and economic growth. Both are needed desperately, given the dire daily news headlines." read more
Lionel Palatine
Business OwnerGrowing Pains
"You need to be able to change, to adapt, to monitor and restructure, to be flexible to the ever changing world and events around us." read more
Linda Baines
Corporate Businesswoman
"I thought that ... nothing would ever change; you'd be immutable as a person, sort of set in aspic [sic]. [And] I thought that I wouldn't be able to go on the swings in the playground again. But contrary to what I expected, I've been pleasantly surprised." read more
Lucy Edgar
Project Administrator
"The riots of last week were a really positive experience for me personally. ... I was involved in the aftermath and I have never seen or felt such affection, pride and camaraderie in this city." read more
Akousa Dardaine Edwards
Enterprise Entrepreneur
"So how does personal growth link in with entrepreneurship? Someone once said entrepreneurship is the highest form of personal growth." read more
Alex Connock
Business Founder
"TV, like every other industry, is being upended by the internet and social media." read more
Yibin Yang
Business Owner and Entrepreneur
"In Chinese history, there are five tenets that are of great importance and are used to guide the behaviour of Chinese people: benevolence, rectitude, politeness, wisdom and fidelity." read more
Stevie Gray
HR Manager
“Growth” – what an interesting word!
"Hopefully, as we grow and develop in our knowledge and physical capabilities, we also develop our understanding and our humility with regard to our fellow man" read more
“Growth” – what an interesting word!
"Hopefully, as we grow and develop in our knowledge and physical capabilities, we also develop our understanding and our humility with regard to our fellow man" read more
Susan Marlowe
Professor in Entrepreneurship in the Department of HRM at De Montfort University, Leicester
Thinking About Small Business Growth
"fact one – there is restricted ‘market space’ for growth in sectors where small firms are over concentrated so for many small firm owners, growth is not an option. "read more
Thinking About Small Business Growth – well Growth!
"the reason there are so many small business that don’t grow, is because they’re happy like that" read more
Business Owner
Managing Documents and Data in a Growing Business "As businesses start to grow, each functional part of the business will start to create its own data and documents."
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Dr Izzy Warren Smith
Research Fellow at MMUBS
Growth
"Perhaps less emphasis on ‘economic growth’ and a bit more on ‘economic development’ would be a wiser approach for 2012? "
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Director of Business Growth Hub
"Often the businesses that see the highest growth, even in difficult market conditions, are those that really focus on and nurture a strong sales culture" read more
Bill Greenhalgh
Enterprise Fellow
"The key is to take an innovative approach and to be more effective in the commercialisation of knowledge" read more
Prof. Lynn Martin
Centre for Enterprise Director
"If I ruled the world... well, maybe just some small parts of it, I’d be looking at ways to help small companies grow." read more
Melanie Bryan OBE
Business Owner
"entering the gates to Buckingham Palace for my investiture against a backdrop of flashes from tourists’ cameras" read more
Angelique Meyer
Chief Representative of the Netherlands Business
Support Office (NBSO)
'Why not share the insights we discussed during two inspiring days in Manchester with some of the brightest minds representing the best higher education institutions and businesses in both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands?' read more
