Bachchan’s and Growth for Sake of Growth

Over weekend me and wify went for watching the much awaited Sarkar Raj. Somewhere in the movie Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai are debating about their view points about businesses, profitability and social reforms. While Aishwarya is trying to establish a case for profitability as the core behind running businesses and in this case behind setting up a power plant (the point of contention in the movie, seemingly), Abhishek makes an interesting point: “plant ko banane ke liye paisa chahiye, paise ko banane ke liye plant nahi”…meaning “you need money to make the plant, you don’t need plant to make money”.

 

It raises an interesting question…we all talk of growth each year, higher top line, stronger bottom line etc etc. All of that because allegedly economy is growing and hence we should grow stronger. And ofcourse then there is all that relative growth. Grow more than your competitor, market share and all that. It’s growth for the sake of growth.

 

I wonder after creating a nice little vision statement, how many organizations revisit that…it’s just raised every now and then like a slogan…business growth is another matter as they would say J

 

Will we have an organization which is happy if they remain stagnant in growth, if there vision is met and lived day after day…or would we all continue to succumb under stock market commitments and money holders (I am not too sure if they all qualify to be called shareholders, hence the term money holders) theory of business for making money.

 

~~Rohit~~