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When your company is squeezed, it shows your points of failure

When you go to the gym and workout, wait, when you work out at home, you goal is to push your body to point where it is uncomfortable or failure.  This produces change in your strength or overall fitness.  If you just do what is easy, your fitness doesn't improve.  

How does this apply to business?  

Do you deploy changes during month ends?  Holidays? Black Friday?
Do you push your teams to not be ok with even small failures?
Do you push teams to never have an outage?
Do you test your systems for failure?
Do you test your environment for security issues?
Do you challenge your people to think about the business or just their silo?
Do you accept statements like, "We just need to hire more people."

If you want to scale and grow your business, you have to squeeze your company to see what fails.  This is a way to make it stronger and ready for when your company takes off and has hyper growth.  The company culture has to be one of innovation and learning and scalability. 
 
  

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