Not weighing in on either side of this debate, but from a systems perspective it can be incredibly difficult to keep a complex system in a fixed state. Business

Not weighing in on either side of this debate, but from a systems perspective it can be incredibly difficult to keep a complex system in a fixed state. Businesses are no different, so if something is working to get you "up" to the local maxima (let's say this is the "right" size) it's really hard to predict when & how to keep you there, and instead keep doing the same thing that seems to be working. It's hard to find examples of companies that are static, outside of the largest public or government enterprises; most are cycling between growing and shrinking.