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> the verb to roger, fwiw. :]
roger that. :¬ )
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'Make a business grow' could get pretty tiresome after four of five go arounds at an MBA seminar.
Yes, but even "make a business grow" is one helluva lot more tolerable than "maximize profitability potential."
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"maximize profitability potential"
would be sweet song to such seminarians as those
btb, apropos [of] 'insel's mild jab,' I'm really quite soft on MBAs at the moment, having just finished Barton's "The Man Nobody Knows."
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GAH-- organic things grow: businesses expand!! [stamping foot e] 
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I think I'm growing old. Do you think it'll sell?
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In reply to:
GAH--organic things grow: businesses expand!!
A business is inorganic?
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Please post a link to photographs of your "pointy-haired boss."
So far, nobody has been able to capture his spirit on film. Sorry.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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A business is inorganic? It's not a living thing, no.
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It is a community.
Communities grow.
[___________]
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But why is 'to grow' permissably used with inorganic subjects, but cannot be used in its causative sense with inorganic objects?
"Our friendship grew over the course of years."
Many people seem to deplore the attempts of groups (usually governmental) which try to legislate language usage, but then if somebody (actually a lot of bodies) use language in some new way, these same people get bent out of shape.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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