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BOSSY

How to Escape Business Slumps & Dangerous "Stagnation" Territory

Dec 14, 2023
This podcast discusses ways to escape business slumps and dangerous stagnation. They delve into case studies of converting stagnation, music and fashion for beating slumps, pivoting out of bad periods, and successful turnarounds by companies like Sprint and Applebee's. They also explore signs of dangerous stagnation and the myth of sunk costs.
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Quick takeaways

  • Recognize red flags indicating stagnation in business such as lack of purpose and innovation.
  • Knowing when to pivot or stay the course can be challenging, but having a metric of success and embracing change can lead to growth.

Deep dives

Maintaining vs Growing a Business

Maintaining a business is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is important to have something moving forward to keep the business motivated. Lack of clear purpose, waning enthusiasm, disengagement from others, lack of innovation, infrequent wins, and process trumping curiosity are red flags that something is wrong.

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