LTYM - Elasticity

Letters to a Young Manager

Elasticity, #363
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Please note that this letter is in-process; the following are my notes

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The problem of elasticity of staff time and maintenance budget: increased demand is absorbed for a season, and then in breaks.
The parable of the paddle ball and the elastic; at some point, when hit too hard, the ball flew away?
Yoga stretch and twist: the twist goes a little bit further each week, but eventually you hit the limit

Economic principle of elasticity? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_(economics) "Price elasticity of demand is a measure used to show the responsiveness, or elasticity, of the quantity demanded of a good or service to a change in its price"

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Takeaways:

A stretch goes further each time, but at some point breaks

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