History is a set of lies agreed upon.
It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot - they don't sit still for you. The way organizations are designed and structured, the ways jobs are defined, and the way we have been taught to behave and think in organizations create fundamental learning disabilities. Individuals within organizations are fixated on short term events, and the explanations that go along with them. The explanations may be true, but they distract us from seeing the longer term patterns of change that underlie the events, and from examining the causes of those patterns.