handcaper

Once you get to a certain size, you have to figure out new ways of growing. And then you start leaking on everyone else's industry. And when you do that you sort of wake up the bears, and the bears come out of the woods and start beating the shit out of you.
 -Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon CEO (from "Searching for Trouble," Ken Auletta, The New Yorker, Oct 12, 2009)