The overall goal of the fifth wave of organizational life is to avoid The Poisoned Inheritance that the previous third and fourth wave organizations experienced in their failure to respond to change. From Davidson's Grand Strategy approach we can discern seven golden rules of the new management paradigm. The planners must be doers. Action speaks loader than plans. Strategic thinking is Risk Management.
People are the primary organizational resource.
The organizational goal is to maintain change. The power in Davidson's message about grand strategy and the prescription for executing it is in the emphasis that is placed on the shared values and beliefs that the organizational systems uses in deriving a mission, competitive strategies, performance criteria and the mechanisms for change. While not explicitly stating it, Davidson leans toward a leading edge concern for knowledge management. Like many strategic development models, Boar outlines an assessment, strategic development and execution model for dealing with the enormous changes that are now found surrounding corporate life. Underlying his model is an emphasis for strategic thinking that can en-'vision' not only what is, but as well, what could be given the present market situation.