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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.

But In A Turbulent Environment The Change Is So Widespread That It Just Routes Around Any Kind Of Central Authority. So It Is Best To Manage The Bottom-up Change Rather Than Try To Institute It From The Top Down.

It's Generally Much Easier To Kill An Organization Than To Change It Substantially.

Singularity Is The Point At Which "all The Change In The Last Million Years Will Be Superseded By The Change In The Next Five Minutes."

We Have To Get Better At Believing The Impossible.