Surviving 100 years

Change is inevitable and time forcibly changes a lot of things, whether they are international boundaries, life style, mindset and even big corporate. I’ve observed that even for big corporate to survive for more than 100 years and maintaining a continuous growth is an uphill task.

The three generations duration is sufficient enough to change the mindset of people operating the business, challenge the business objective, challenge to value proposition and sufficient enough for the competitors to come up with there own product or service as an substitute and on top of it “time” a powerful factor to challenge the business dynamics.

Any organization who survives for three generations creates enough of customer base, goodwill and value and act as a major player in the economy of a country. Those organization presence and growth provides employment, foreign exchange and many other dimensions to the country and such organizations become inevitable.

But time changes a lot of things and any fear factor with the deliverables of such organization causes problems not only to the company and to the operating country but ripple effects of such trouble are sufficient enough to shake the global economy There are examples which can justify my argument (Lehman brothers founded in 1850, General Motors Founded in 1908, Toyota Founded in 1933) are the list of corporations which were in existence from last so many years and any probable problem with the organizations deliverables or services have create worry clouds on global economy.

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