Why organizations rarely know who they’re standing on 4 min read In the early 1960s, ecologist Robert Paine picked a short stretch of rocky shoreline on the Washington coast, at a place called Mukkaw Bay, and started removing every ochre sea star he could find from it. Not once. Every couple of weeks, by hand,…
The popular story says forests share out of generosity and hives decide by instinct. The research says something more interesting: one runs on enforced trade, the other on honest consensus.
When Bob Dylan went electric at Newport in 1965, the crowd booed. What they were reacting to wasn’t the quality of the music. It was a lesson in why good changes provoke resistance.
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