Each System Is Trying To Anticipate Change

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Softball Isn't Just A Game It's Away Of Life.

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.

Organizations Get Invested Into A Particular Product. And Sometimes The Best Thing Is To Stop Making That Product, Even Though It's Profitable, Because It Has Optimized At A Local Peak.

An Organization's Reason For Being, Like That Of Any Organism, Is To Help The Parts That Are In Relationship To Each Other, To Be Able To Deal With Change In The Environment.