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Designing for Growth

Minimize Growing Pains

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By no means can growth be pain-free; it isn’t a reasonable expectation to think that could be possible. Think back to when you were a child and your arms and legs would occasionally—and seemingly randomly—ache for no apparent reason. If your mother was like mine, she described those aches as growing pains. If you were like I was, that answer seemed like the dumbest thing you had ever heard. Worse, you were powerless to prevent the ache.

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    There’s a great example of Design the Box shared by Kate Verrill online. See http://www.gogamestorm.com/?p=576 .

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Ingle, B.R. (2013). Designing for Growth. In: Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6182-7_9

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