
The enterprise is a living organism, teeming with parts. Each is a source which
generates a distinct form of energy essential to the enterprise. Each particle
of energy is held in place, moved, transformed, or torn apart by the many other
internal parts. This bundle is animate . . . it appears to have a will of its own.
It grows, changes, reacts, adapts—and disintegrates—with or without planning
or intervention. Management's task is to build cohesive, resilient people and
structures so
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