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Growing Your Business Via a Strong Network – Stibel on “The Business Journals”

July 31, 2015 By Jenny Crawford

“To grow your business, grow your network,” Jeff Stibel said in his July 30, 2015 post for “The Business Journals.”

In this article, Stibel talks about attracting customers and increasing revenue by having a strong network. He brings it back to the ant colony that he references in “Breakpoint,” noting that an ant colony knows it’s the strength of the network that matters, not the size.

To learn more about building a strong network in order to help grow a business, read Stibel’s full post here.

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Facebook Must Shrink to Survive | MoneyBeat Interview with Jeff Stibel

May 20, 2014 By Lennon Cole

Jeff Stibel, author of Breakpoint, talks with MoneyBeat host Paul Vigna about Facebook’s future, and why constant growth is not only unsustainable, but also counterproductive to longevity.

Why Does Growth Stagnate for Companies? For One Thing, It’s Natural

June 27, 2013 By Divya Parameshwaran

There are countless examples of companies whose life cycles can be represented by the adjoining graph. There is the period of rapid growth, after which the company hits a peak, then settles into a plateau or state of equilibrium. At this point, shareholders start to get worried, share prices go down, and everyone begins to speculate about the future of the company.

The following article explains why this process is natural, and almost essential for a long life cycle of any company. These periodic slowdowns are inevitable, though management can and should strive to make decisions that slow down the decline and reverse it quickly. In order to make these decisions, it is crucial to understand the forces responsible for slowing down these seemingly unstoppable companies.

Read more in this article by Ron Ashkenas: Why Successful Companies Stop Growing