Twelve Keys to Sustainable Company Success

Key 12 Change and Celebration. Enjoying the Experience; Celebrating Success

A century ago, historian Henry Adams announced a new “law,” demonstrated by historical record and expected to continue into the future. His new law stated that change in human history continuously accelerates. Adams studied science and was familiar with the work of the leading scientists of his time. Looking back over the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, he plotted the rate of human progress: scientific discovery, coal output, power generation, electricity, and other indicators. All his curves followed “the old, familiar law of squares,” continuously accelerating. With all his measures accelerating, in another hundred years he expected such complexity ...