If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary. You live by shedding. The more they shrink, it seems, the more they sink into rigidity and slink behind an ancient regime that is being swept away.
Stability is less to be desired than resilience.
Stability is the capacity of a system to return to equilibrium after it has been disturbed. We are living in a world of quantal changes, of macro change. The early church was fluid, flat, fast off its feet and strong on its feet with control at the edges only. In this new world, speed is essential. In 1996, companies launched a record 24,406 new products.