Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.
The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.
Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things.
Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.