Thinking small

Fleur Doidge
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Businesses of all sizes tend to focus primarily on growth - but is this really the best route to success? Fleur Doidge digs deeper

"If you are not careful, you can grow your company to death," the author of the 2010 book Smart Growth, Ed Hess, says. "Bigger is not always better. For decades, growth has been a determining facto...

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