Organisms By Their Design Are Not Made

The Young Are Always Coming Up With The Good Ideas; It's Because They Waste Time. They Follow Their Passion And Do Something, Not Looking For A Payoff, Just Doing What's Interesting.

Managers Tend To Treat Organizations As If They Are Infinitely Plastic. They Hire And Fire, Merge, Downsize, Terminate Programs, Add Capacities. But There Are Limits To The Shifts That Organizations Can Absorb.

Attention Deficit Is No Longer The Supposed Domain Of Generation Y's Who Were Brought Up On A Diet Of Social Media And New Technology. A Recent Study Revealed 65 Percent Of 55-64 Year Olds Surf, Text And Watch Television Simultaneously.

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.

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