CHAPTER 19
Riding the Life Cycle across the Forms
Many organizations spend much of their lives in one structure, where they get on with an established mission. For example, a symphony orchestra is likely to be a personal-professional hybrid no matter who is the conductor. But in the world of organizations, nothing is sacred. From time to time, most organizations have to, choose to, or are forced to, transition to some other structure, whether another form, or a hybrid. This chapter describes what seems to be a pattern of the common transitions, as a life cycle of organizations.
Here are some postulates about the main characteristics of these transitions.
• A transition can be rapid or gradual, complete or partial, permanent or temporary. Much ...
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