Why Growth Matters to Your Organization
From Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning:
With growth, the organization expands and people can build a career and a future. Growth enables a business to get the best people and retain them. People who see personal growth opportunities have more energy, better morale, and enhanced self-confidence.
At a company that is not growing, there is little emotional energy. Your entire workday is spent feeling as if you are moving underwater. The best people spend a significant amount of time looking for a job.
If you are not in a growth situation, you are in a limiting situation.
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You know, I believed this for quite a while, but I’ve begun to question it. I’m not sure any organization’s growth can continue ad infinitum, nor that such growth would necessarily translate into the benefits described above. I think an organization should grow in ways and to an extent appropriate for it’s own unique character. For example, should the locally-owned hardware store in small-town, rural America perpetually grow? I mean, hopefully it grows to the point where it is profitable and is meeting local demands. But if the town or nearby region doesn’t grow, then plateauing at a certain point seems both inevitable and desirable.
I’ve thought the same thing about churches. With all the emphasis on growth these days, there seems to be no acknowledgment that a church’s effectiveness shrinks after it expands past a certain geographic footprint. At a certain point, drawing people from a distance becomes counterproductive to the nature and mission of the church. Acknowledging that threshold commits one to the reality that “saturation” and perpetuation are sufficient goals. Where some, perhaps a lot, of churches get in trouble is when they are unable to raise up subsequent generations to replace those who pass on.