Organisations, like people and services, go through a common life cycle. These determine the expectations and behaviours that characterise each stage of the organisation's life cycle. As they are slightly different from humans, it tends to be less complex with its distinctions becoming truly distinguishable according to its relative cycle:
Growth stage: flirting, infancy, touch-touchy, adolescent and fullness.
Aging stage: aristocracy, incipient bureaucracy, bureaucracy and death.
Growth Stage:
Flirting - basically means that the wannabe enterpreneur is flirting with the idea of having a company. He might at this point be more worried about seeking information about getting started at all than the actual proceedings that come with running a company.
infancy - a company is at its childhood and hardly yields a positive balance. Any revenue generated during its infancy usually goes outright to payment of any expenditure necessary to rise it from the ground.
touch-touchy - the company has ceased from being just an entity struggling to alive on the market and is now actually starting to push its on weight and generating some solid income. Sales and/or services are likely to increase in volume and so an overhaul of the way to conduct business or deliver services may be in order.
adolescence - after having weathered the storm during the touch-touchy stage, inconsistency comes back to haunt the company again.Usually it means that doubts arise in the minds of those at the higher management tier about the future of the company, while at the lower end there may be disputes over what should be done by whom. At it is, a company never becomes stable for long.
fullness - things have come full circle and the company is no longer liable to wobbly spells. It has attained full maturity and now just coasts through the market on good governance and management.
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