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Green and Growing: Avoiding the Rot in Business #shorts

Name: Green and Growing: Avoiding the Rot in Business #shorts
Uploaded: 2025-10-29T17:44:32+00:00
Duration: 7 s
Channel: Joe Fier
Description: A short YouTube dialogue in which two speakers reflect on personal business struggles and the tension between growth and decay in business — summarized…

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A short YouTube dialogue in which two speakers reflect on personal business struggles and the tension between growth and decay in business — summarized by the metaphor 'green and growing / ripe and rotting.' Speakers mention studying sales, marketing, strategic planning, and corporate finance while grappling with why their business problems persist.

I almost lost my house a million years ago. When I was 30 some odd years old, those 14 words came back to me. You know, you're the green and growing.
And ripe and rotting. And I look like I'm a good guy.
Why is this happening to me? I study and read books on sales and marketing.
What's going on? And then it hit me like a ton of bricks. You're green and growing. Ripe and rotting. I didn't really look at where I.
Was ripe and rotting. Strategic planning, financial forecasting, budgeting, corporate finance.
I sucked at that and I didn't know it. So I illuminated it. I faced it.