This is a guest post by Keary Crawford and Wayne Simmons, the authors of “Growth Thinking” “If it’s not growing, it’s going to die.” Michael Eisner, Former CEO, Walt Disney Company The relationship between politics and business growth has long been a flashpoint between competing political ideologies. Reinforcing the idea that growth is political, terms like sequestration, quantitative easing and austerity are now being viewed as the determining factors in whether companies can grow in the future.