Chapter 8

Way to Go

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

––Charles Darwin1

This text has been all about learning and wisdom being organic and incremental, and productivity being one of the undervalued answers to lack of competitiveness and survival, so it is appropriate to look at what two wise men have to say about the subject of change. It is what industry, commerce, and business education have to do to their mindsets when considering how to deal with the veiled effects of the flexible labor market, corporate amnesia, and their marginalized decision-making practices.

The first comes from the man, quoted in the strapline to this chapter, above, who combined ...

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