对于很多企业来说,他们认为年复一年的用相同方式经营企业即可保持不败。如果这样可以的话,为什么要改变现在的经营方式呢?而对位于美国明尼苏达州的General Pattern公司,这种思维可带来的唯一必然结果是被市场淘汰。对于一家金属加工企业言,要生存壮大,他们需记住一句箴言:“变革或消亡。” For many businesses, they think they can be unbeaten in the same way they run businesses year after year. If so, why change the current way of doing business? The only logical consequence of this thinking at the General Pattern Corporation in Minnesota, USA, is being eliminated by the market. For a metalworking company to survive and grow, they need to remember the motto: “Change or die.”