Read entire article »Arie de Geus
The Living Company, p. 3, Longview Publishing Limited, 1997
Moreover, there is something unnatural in the high corporate mortality rate; no living species, for instance, endures such a large gap between its maximum life expectancy and its average realization…Why, then, do so many companies die prematurely?…Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations’ true nature is that of a community of humans. The legal establishment, business educators, and the financial community all join them in the mistake.
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