| Nobody knows why dinosaurs died off, but there are | | | | Sometimes, businesses cannot function without the |
| manyintriguing theories. | | | | Nanny State artificially protecting them against the |
| Dead dinosaur hypotheses parallel the excuses | | | | "thinner air" of new cheaper, smarter competitors |
| owners usewhen their businesses fail. | | | | from other continents. |
| Reason 1. An asteroid or volcano caused a fatal | | | | Reason 4. Dinosaurs evolved into birds. There must |
| disaster. | | | | have been skillful vetrenarians years ago offering |
| This absolves dinosaurs or businesses from any | | | | great body sculpting and diet programs to downsize |
| blame, since extinction was due simply to being a | | | | dinosaurs into birds. |
| pathetic "victim of circumstances." | | | | Businesses often try evolving into something they |
| However, this theory never explains why so many | | | | aren't, and never could be, then becoming extinct. |
| other forms of plants and animals survived when | | | | However, downsizing sometimes can help a fat, |
| dinosaurs could not--or why so many competitors are | | | | floundering business return to basics and profitability. |
| thriving while you're dying. | | | | Reason 5. Dinosaurs were kidnapped by space aliens. |
| Reason 2. Dinosaurs were too nomadic and unwisely | | | | If you'rea fellow reader of "Weekly World News" |
| wandered away to strange new places, places where | | | | that's not credible since this publication describes |
| their immune systems couldn't function well. | | | | space aliens as generous and friendly, very unlikely |
| In business, a firm can wander into new unfamiliar | | | | folks to steal our dinosaurs. |
| product opportunities and markets--and they cannot | | | | Maybe space aliens come down and take away the |
| maintain financial health as a result. Their managerial | | | | feeble profits of failing companies. That excuse, while |
| immune systems cannot cope in unfamiliar territory. | | | | far-fetched, is a whole lot better than what many |
| Reason 3. The firmament encapsulating the earth | | | | companies offer when profits fail to meet Wall |
| was removed by God to allow rainfall for the flood | | | | Street expectations. |
| during Noah's time. | | | | What's a business to do to prevent going the way |
| As a result, the available oxygen on earth was | | | | of the dinosaur? |
| reduced by half and dinosaurs, having very small lungs | | | | Retain a strategic planning consultant and planning |
| anyway for large animals, couldn't get enough | | | | meeting facilitator. That gives you and your business |
| oxygen and died quickly. | | | | maximum protection from repeating the fate of dead |
| In business, the similarity is free trade agreements | | | | dinosaurs. |
| and removing the protective encapsulation of trade | | | | Remember, if you fail to plan, you're planning to fail. |
| restrictions. | | | | |