UNDERSTANDIGN THE DYNAMICS OF GROWTH AND CHANGE 2

The other basis for business success is change, in other to effectively drive home idea behind the word I would like to use the hermetic word Transmutation instead of the word change for the simple reason that I feel that the spirit of the word which gives it its meaning is lost on many which is partly because the word is used loosely. According to ancient alchemical/hermetic philosophy, the term transmute implies to change condition. Ancient alchemical thought still holds that you can transmute one thing to another thus changing its condition/nature; this is what change really means. It means to transmute conditions from one thing to the next so much so that the thing transmuted takes on a new characteristic that was absent in it prior to when it was transmuted.

They say the only constant thing in life is change which is an absolute truth. Change itself is a product of motion. It is most unfortunate that when most people think of change what comes to mind is growth. Also there is great resistance by many people to change even when what comes to mind when they think of change is growth. As shown above growth implies steady increase while change going by the word transmutation implies a change in condition. While growth may birth change but it doesn’t necessarily leads to change the same way expansion doesn’t necessarily results to growth. Change is peculiar to the nature of idea the same way two legs are peculiar to man and wings to birds. 

If we pay close attention to our idea(s) we would realize that besides growing it always seek a higher expression of itself.  When we understand this fact we are able to easily make the mental and organizational adjustment necessary when the time comes to change. Another example of change is what is called the convergence of technology in the world today, i.e; Smartphones as we have them today are made of different technologies – the telephone, the camera, video, internet and a semi computer et al. 

A few years down the line these were very different technologies, each worth its own salt but today put all of them together to the telephone and we have a smartphone. The truth is the smartphone is quite different from the traditional phone. This time around the phone didn’t grow but change its function and characteristics (it was transmuted to higher from) and with change came something new altogether which we now call smartphone. When we put the smartphone side by side with the traditional telephone we see that the nature of the two are so different it’s hard to comes to terms with the fact that one originated from.

When it comes to business we must realize that our business cannot stay the same forever regardless of may wish it to be so and the business that succeed on the long run are those that understand the primary nature of the ideas and then consciously engineer and drive the growth and change process which is one thing lacking in this part of the world.

UNDERSTANDIGN THE DYNAMICS OF GROWTH AND CHANGE 1

The landscape of business is rapidly changing so much so that it is perceived by many that prerequisite for business success be you as an entrepreneur or a multinational conglomerate is somewhat changing as the dynamics of life and business of the 21^st century is somewhat different from those of eras past.

In an articles I wrote in the beginning of the year titled “The nature and potentiality of business”, one thing I was trying to drive home amongst other is the fact that at the crux of every business is an idea/ideas and as such it is pertinent that we understand the nature of ideas and the rules governing them as this will help us take our business ventures further and faster and with little resistance. As far as I am concerned I am of the opinion that business primarily is about two things; Ideas and People (and both of these things are principally mental). The nature of ideas dictates that it like everything else must obey the unerring laws of nature, the same way a bird in flight must obey the law of gravity if it desires to continue to fly. One law that governs ideas the same way it governs the movement of molecules and even the giant sun is the law of perpetual motion. In a world of perpetual motion (a philosophical idea now proven by science), nothing stands still as everything must obey the call of motion even the idea which forms the crux of your business venture.

It is this law of perpetual motion that serves as an overall basis and an essential factor that defines success both in life and business. In business, the law of perpetual motion shows itself first as Growth. An idea that doesn’t grow cannot be a true idea in the real sense of the word and as such it is only a matter of time before it withers off and die. Growth shouldn’t not be mistaken for expansion, while on the one the hand, expansion maybe regarded as an indication of growth because truthful speaking, a growing business is one which will not suffer from stagnation, however on the other hand, expansion by itself is no true measure of  growth because in this present age of multinational companies and growing international business presence partly due to the fact that factors of production are cheaper in some parts of the world than in other including some business incentives, we cannot truly say that expansion by itself is a vindication of growth. 

Growth would imply as steady and consistent increase and nobody better exemplifies this better than the technology sector. When we look at the smart phone industry or the computers we see a steady increase in the products been pushed out, Samsung galaxy S2 is different from S3 while S3 is quite different from S4. This difference isn’t in their primary function as the nature of the product must remain the same however the difference lays in their secondary function, such as camera, clarity, OS updates and all. 

Hence if we were to put all the above mentioned phones side by side judging them by their primary essence which is the ability to carry your phone everywhere with you and still enjoy seamless calls. However when we look at the functionality of the phones we see a good different, the same way a man is different from the teenager who in turn is different from a baby not in essence because they are all humans but in functionality. 

What the man can do and the easy and expertise at which he brings to bear is quite different from that which a teenager can do which also differs from that which a baby can do. When we look at this analogy we get a clear distinction of what growth is. And like I said earlier because ideas which are at the crux of every business must obey the law of life which is that of perpetual motion which equals growth on the one hand, the question I will like to put forth is this, is there anything in life that doesn’t grow? Even the mountains and crystals experience some form of growth.