Here at the Leicestershire Innovation Festival 24, we sometimes struggle with trying to reconcile the demands that the larger corporates make on their smaller (and sometimes, nano-) supply chain businesses. They can be a complete pain; but if we can see them as an important part of the business ecology, then it might make it easier for us to understand how we are all interdependent.
You’ll know when you have an allotment that water is a pretty important commodity which, in this climate at the moment, finds itself in all sorts of places at the wrong time and in the wrong amounts.
So you take to watering the various plants on aforesaid allotment and realise quickly that the trees require a damn sight more water than your average marigold. They drown in the stuff; give them a tub full and it’s gone and they’re screaming in their own plant way for more. It doesn’t stop, their need for water, because they’re so damned big and greedy.
But they are what they are: trees. And they demand a lot.
Businesses are like that in the ecology they inhabit. Like it or not, there will be a tree in the midst of your business ecology which is soaking up resources which you could do with. You could do so much more with the resources they demand. We all know that, but the fact is, they’re a tree and you’re a marigold. You both have an equal right to inhabit and thrive in your mutual ecological economy but they will always need more than you.
Trees in your business world ? Get over them. They’ll be here long after you, unless you take an axe to them – but then just watch how the whole climate suffers.
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