If you fail to grow your businesses swiftly enough, then flipper becomes agitated and noses in. His very survival (or at least his annual bonus) depends upon your performance that year. Flipper doesn’t care about long-term prospects. He doesn’t even care about long-term shareholder value. He only cares about growth – and he cares about it now. As with his co-denizen of the deep, the shark, he either keeps moving forward or he drowns – and you have no choice but to move forward or drown with him. Except it will not be his corpse spiralling down into the depths if things go wrong. He will live
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