Organic is Better
These days, my wife is buying more and more organic foods from the grocery store.
Most of the time she has just been doing it “under the radar”, so my daughter and I haven’t noticed.
But recently, my daughter commented that the “lettuce” not only looked strange, like weeds, but also tasted a lot like… dirt. To which my wife piped up and said that the greens were organic, and yes, weren’t they tasting great…
We disagreed.
Dirt was for pre-schoolers, not high schoolers says the daughter.
I agreed.
But my wife didn’t. She just went on to say that our taste buds were so used to processed food that they just didn’t know what good, wholesome, natural food – - like these organic greens – were supposed to taste like anymore.
Give us the processed stuff, we said – it’s easier.
And even if it is healthier, we’d rather go down with a smile on our faces…
That got me thinking about what we call organic growth in business.
Organic growth is hard work and doesn’t always taste good. It’s easier to do it by buying “pre-processed” companies and just add them to the mix.
Growth by acquisition sure looks better and faster. And it often tastes better to shareholders… in the short term anyway.
But Mom is right, organic foods are better for you.
It may not taste as good in terms of speedy results, but organic growth (as opposed to growth-by-acquisition) makes for a stronger company over the long term.
One with more profits, more loyal employees, and even better products.
So that’s what we’re about at PAS.
Organic growth.
No acquisitions to build mass, no purchased revenues, no misfit products, and no collection of mismatched teams the world over.
No, at PAS, we want to build a solid company with solid products and loyal employees. And in doing so, we will focus on doing those things we do best.
Customers thank us for it.
With 39% organic growth in 2005.
And 67% organic growth planned for 2007.
And our shareholders are thinking that it tastes pretty good, too!
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