Richard Pascale

Richard Pascale, the Economist, 2008-12-12

He has focused on four commonalities in particular:

• that prolonged equilibrium in either type of system is a precursor to death;

• that innovation occurs close to the edge of chaos;

• that all living things demonstrate a capacity for self-organisation; and

• that when you tamper with living things, you face the law of unintended consequences.

It is perhaps the first—that to do nothing is not a viable option—that has attracted most attention at a time when corporate change has been accelerating sharply.

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