Management today must be considered as a continuous experiment

Rigid inflexibility and the inability to adapt and change along with the environment, condemns an organisation to ... disintegration and premature extinction. Paradoxically, if order and control is imposed on the system at the wrong time, the self-organising process of change will collapse and it will die. In practice this usually means protecting the young fresh upstarts ... The interference from former, or current, successful ways of doing things, must be ... fundamentally challenged, absorbed and changed. In the long term, the real danger of not continuously adapting to the shifts in the modern business climate, is that the whole organisation can and will become unstable and probably disappear. Management today must be considered as a continuous experiment. (Rowley & Roevens, 2007, p.26)