The Battle Between Driving Growth and Profitability

I have previously written about when it is better to drive growth vs. profitability.  But, what wasn’t clear in that post, which I want to better explain here, is it is mathematically impossible to try to maximize growth and profitability at exactly the same time.  The math just doesn’t work.  And, for the many companies I meet that are trying to do both, I figured you could benefit from the below reality check.

Read the rest of this post in Forbes, which I guest authored this week.

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