An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.
Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq
Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.