The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.