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I like to think of organizations as large living things. Just like people are made out of numerous living cells, organizations are living things made out of num
by maltalex 9y ago
I like to think of organizations as large living things. Just like people are made out of numerous living cells, organizations are living things made out of numerous living people.
As such, they behave similarly to other living things is some ways. And all living things want to keep living.
- amelius 9y ago> And all living things want to keep living. But there is often also an element of resistance to change.
- ci5er 9y agoWell, yeah. Most living creatures tend to do whatever it is that they do that has let them live until this point. Inertia is commonly a habit of the successful.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 9y agoReally there are quite a lot of things that work like this. It's a tautological truth that things able to influence their own survival will tend toward doing so, since the one's that don't won't survive and are therefore selected against. Organizations, societies, cultures, nations, and identities, all memetic lifeforms.