Growing Your Business

At Exchange, we are starting our research for the 2016 trend reports on for profit and non profit child care.  Included in these reports will be our annual lists of the Top 50 largest for profit and non profit organizations in North America.  If your organization serves more than 1,000 children, we invite you to apply for inclusion on these lists by completing the 2016 Child Care Survey.

And in thinking about organizational size, we reflected on Henry Wilde's article in the March 2015 issue of Exchange, "Considering Expansion? Lessons Learned Along the Way," where he offered this advice about sacred cows:

"Our programs followed a herd of other early childhood education programs without questioning why.  We built a model premised on the belief that we would do the same things as every other program we knew, only better, but we never questioned the sacred cows."  Henry's company, Acelero Learning, instead switched to this mindset:

"We purposefully question why we do what we do.  It was a difficult but game changing epiphany when we realized that what we thought of as the fundamental pieces of our operating model was, in fact, a trope.  The core of how our programs operate today only emerged when we forced ourselves to question whether we have evidence that the choices we make actually result in better outcomes for children and families."

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