Rationales and Reasons Why Businesses Fail

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist™

Some people and organizations go to great extremes to place spins, rationalize or save face. Often, sweeping generalizations involve making far-fetched excuses or scapegoating someone else.

Criticizing others may be cloaked as a subtle or even polite dialog. Yet, behind these often-voiced expressions lie fallacies in reasoning, the wrong facts, jealousy, animosity, personal self-defeat or cluelessness of the speaker.

When people pose the following questions or statements, there often lurk sarcasm or hidden agendas behind the "seemingly innocent" comments.

Failing to make investments in future company success:

I'm building a new house right now. Just took a vacation. Got to send the kid to college.

(or some other personal reason)

We just bought a piece of computer software.

Have to make cuts everywhere else to pay for rising production costs.

We make a good product...that should be enough.

Why must we spend time on things other than our core business?

We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development.

We just cannot afford to make the investments.