Helping Overcome the Fear of Growth

We humans are creatures of habit, and, it is probably unsurprising that some of the increased complexity and ambiguity can be quite unsettling. Paradoxically, this emergent fear can start to hinder growth, as leaders pick on it and start taking preventative measures to avoid damage to customer relations, poor service quality, and minimize mounting pressure on operations.

- Sabby Gill

Wand excitement to dread and hen business experiences sudden growth, it creates a myriad of emotions from joy fear. The progressive mind-set that stimulates growth can inadvertently make us less sensitive to the negative emotions that might emerge as an after effect of growth. We humans are creatures of habit, and, it is probably unsurprising that some of the increased complexity and ambiguity can be quite unsettling. Paradoxically, this emergent fear can start to hinder growth, as leaders pick on it and start taking preventative measures to avoid damage to customer relations, poor service quality, and minimize mounting pressure on operations.

With careful planning and forward thinking, the growth period can in fact be rendered painless. The right IT infrastructure can help to facilitate some of these big changes and make the process a lot smoother. Research conducted by Epicor has recently explored the different approaches to growth taken by organizations. It has been found that the three priorities tend to be in turnover and sales, profits, and expansion into new industries and product areas. The findings yielded a positive outlook for 2016. 70% of the respondents expect growth in 2016, and, 79% have made or are investing in integrated IT infrastructure as a key to supporting growth.

Leaders caught off guard