On organizations evolving: when short-term coping mechanisms become the new way of doing business
A couple weeks ago, one of my favorite arts bloggers, Andrew Taylor (a/k/a The Artful Manager) wrote a post whose title conveys a pretty strong thesis: Organizations don't evolve; they cope. While I share Andrew's skepticism of the field's use of natural world metaphors (ecosystem, ecology, evolve, adapt, sustainability, etc.) it's not because I think the [...]