How to grow nowhere

If you’re going to run your business like a rental car, at least admit it. There’s a certain kind of company that doesn’t have a strategy. And if you work in IT for one of these outfits, you already know it in your bones before you ever see it in a slide deck — you can smell it in the server room, in the duct-taped UPS, in the fact that “next year’s budget” has been a rumor since the Obama administration.