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To Jumpstart Growth, Flip the Company’s Priorities

Harvard Business Review

Like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for individuals, with safety and physiological needs (food, water, shelter) at the base and ego at the top, the business hierarchy of needs has five stages. Why do we have such a hard time spurring more rapid growth? Most organizations follow what I call the business hierarchy of needs.

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To Jumpstart Growth, Flip the Company’s Priorities

Harvard Business Review

Like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for individuals, with safety and physiological needs (food, water, shelter) at the base and ego at the top, the business hierarchy of needs has five stages. Why do we have such a hard time spurring more rapid growth? Most organizations follow what I call the business hierarchy of needs.