Two thoughts on organizational lifespan:
1. A business organization may be less an entity than a symbiotic
grouping. If the highly talented engineer from IBM leaves to start a new
high tech company, a piece of the original organization is gone but a new
nucleus of activity is activated elsewhere.
2. Entrepreneurial individuals are those who, by nature, can endure the
hardships of failure, then adapt to it. Often the "successful" business
owner is someone whose first few businesses have "failed" or gone out of
business. Measurements of business longevity are misleading if we ignore
that persistance of entrepreneurs.
--Lon Badgett lonbadgett@aol.com
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