The Organization And The Environment Are In

Preserve The Core, And Let The Rest Flux. In Their Wonderful Bestseller Built To Last, Authors James Collins And Jerry Porras Make A Convincing Argument That Long-lived Companies Are Able To Thrive 50 Years Or More By Retaining A Very Small Heart Of Unchanging Values, And Then Stimulating Progress In Everything Else. At Times "everything" Includes Changing The Business The Company Operates In, Migrating, Say, From Mining To Insurance. Outside The Core Of Values, Nothing Should Be Exempt From Flux. Nothing.

There Is Nothing To Be Found In A Beehive That Is Not Submerged In A Bee. And Yet You Can Search A Bee Forever With Cyclotron And Fluoroscope, And You Will Never Find The Hive.

Changing Things From The Top Down Works When Things Are Stable.

The Organization And The Environment Are In Concert.

Everything That We Are Making, We Are Making More And More Complex.