I've been thinking about this myself. I have no complete answers but I think that defining a way for good leadership to continue thru time is probably the first

I've been thinking about this myself. I have no complete answers but I think that defining a way for good leadership to continue thru time is probably the first part. I look at IBM as an example. Their one constant has been their ability to pick a leader that carries them forward. They are not as successful now as they have been in the past but they continue as a profitable business. I also look at what makes a successful country and can get some ideas from that. The U.S. has been around for a few hundred years. I think the primary reason has been the founding father's ability to define the country and its values via the U.S. constitution. Every time there's a dispute we go back to it to remind us what the country is all about. So this means that if you define something similar to a constitution it is extremely important to the company's long term success for it to be well defined. What should be in it? That's the 100-year question. I have ideas but I don't really know. I really don't think that it matters what the service or product is as long as it fills a need. Leadership and fidelity to core values are problably the key to staying around.