David Jenyns argues that doing nothing in business means falling behind. Even stable companies decline if they don't adapt to changing competition and markets. He warns that when critical knowledge lives only in individual employees, losing them can cripple operations.
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Now, the reason I call it stationary is because in business, if you do nothing, your business will slowly decline over time. It's just like a natural thing that it'll slowly go down if you don't actively get in there and work it and do it. Even just to remain stationary, you have to be doing some level of work because the world is moving, competition is coming up like there's some work required. So even just to stay stationary, you have to be doing something. But at stationery, usually that's where you've got your team member dependent. You might have some preferred contractors that you do work with, but most of the knowledge on how you do what you do is trapped in the team member. If that team member goes, then you'll be like, ah. And then you get sucked back onto the tools to fill in that void because you don't have a way to transplant that knowledge.