Growth Isn’t Rocket Science

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Harvard Business Review

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🗓️ 19 April 2012

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Ken Favaro, senior partner at Booz & Company and coauthor of the HBR article "Creating an Organic Growth Machine."

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0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cash from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.1	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.7	I'm talking today with Ken Favaro, a senior partner at Booz and Company.
0:38.8	He's the co-author of the HBO article,
0:40.9	Creating an Organic growth machine.
0:43.2	Ken, thanks so much for joining us today.
0:45.1	Morning, Sarah, thank you.
0:46.8	So the basic idea here is this.
0:49.4	Companies need to kick start their internal growth engines
0:52.2	and maintain a high rate of growth.
0:54.9	But how does that work?
0:55.9	And when you call it an organic growth machine, what does that really mean?
1:00.0	Well in the article at least implicitly, not explicitly we were drawing a distinction between
1:04.8	organic growth and inorganic growth so by inorganic growth we mean growing the top line
1:12.1	from making an acquisition or doing a merger.
1:16.6	Organic growth means growing the top line without doing that.
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