Are you wasting the resources?

A businessman went to Germany and saw bunch of big people, the first thing he commented is, “What a waste of resources!”
I was laughed about this when I first heard from my sister, her friend who has a successful business father made such a comment when he visited abroad based on his observation. But after a thought, I can´t agree it more, it takes more resources to keep a bigger man productive in our society. Economically, it looks true for me, but is it?
Size matter? Collectively measured it is!
It is just a small piece of the cake a tall and big person take, In fact, at least 60% of the different in height between individuals is determined by genetic factors. So don´t blame them!
To think about how we consume food and energy and the growth of population nowadays individually and collectively and if it is true as the United Nations predicted of reaching 9.7 billion people by 2050, we need to control the overall consumption of everything from human
The world is not flat. The hunger of children and people in developing countries is growing, and our current growth of economic doesn´t and won´t change the phenomena in a significant way.
Life is not fair.
Size matter? No, if you are useful
I love to watch NBA, it is part of my life since I was little and still is. I used to want to be a basketball player, but after I realized I won´t be more than 1.7m, there is no fundamental advantage to leverage on and plus I am a women and nobody(few people) watch WNBA…. So I appreciated a lot for NBA player who leverage their height and genetic advantage plus many many hard work to contribute to this sports entertainment industry. They are useful in a certain way and in my view. Also even I don´t play NBA, i can still be useful, so does everybody.
There are so many useful things we can do, as long as we can leverage our advantages or make an impact from our assets, talents, time, even power, as long as we use it wisely.
Size doesn´t matter? Yes, if you are agile
Startups have the advantage to be small, they are more flexible to change their plan and adapt to the future. They identified a place to disrupted the industry, serve a specific unsatisfied and/or unreached customers, create a new business model, and they can easily focus on the strategy 100%. If it doesn´t work well, then they review the capability and the market situation, continuously receiving the feedback from customers, then they adapt their strategy again.
Ideally, it is the way how Startup work, yet it is not the case many Startups work. Nowaday plenty of them just pitch an idea, work a while. raise millions of money, and sell to desperate corporations who need new ideas and products to develope from. It is an agile way to leverage your business impact and/or an alternative to exit your business, but for some of them dragging the business for years without promising business model and vision look not agile at all.
What about big corporation? Big corporation have advantage to be big. They´ve been in the market for long time, have certain customer base, and possess many assets and networks they can utilize. Whether they miss their targets, they review the market, put their resources on understanding customers, make the improvement, and new product innovation. It sounds unbelievably attractive if we can have such a big corporation to serve end consumers. In most cases, they will spend most of their capital on pushing new strategies regardless their original motivation, hiring expensive consultants to tell them what to do and usually leads to big layoff, create more products, and acquire more companies. Most of them do a lot, but not agile.
Thoughts on what can we do
As an organization, adapt to the world quickly, do meaningful and right things! The world is changing so fast, It looks so promising with our economic growth after 2008, but no one can say we have a stable economics based on the current situation.
As an individual, be useful, consume less/spend wisely for the sake of the whole human community and the earth mother. Because whatever we try to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our daily work to build our human greatness, unless you can change the economical inventive system and make countries collaborate each other, it won’t help too much to have a healthy distributed human community and the better situation for our planet. (Unless you already planned to move to Mars with Elon Musk.)
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