11-30-2016, 01:21 PM
(11-30-2016, 12:52 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: First mission objective is to stop running companies in a manner that depends on market growth. The pie is shrinking. Opportunities are either making existing enterprises more effective or, a zero sum game where an enterprise wins over market share from others. I predict that at some point, a salvage / reuse economy will become more attractive, since there is no point in sourcing raw materials and expending labor to build new stuff for a shrinking market.
There will still be growth in new markets, where most growth has always been. The massive growth in wireless communications in the 1990s and 2000s was not primarily due to population growth. Granted some traditional industries will shrink as well, but that has always happened too.