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Alexander Rose: Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations

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The Most Dangerous Time to Build a Cathedral

The most dangerous time for something to last is just a generation or two after it was first built. In japan, we also and things like the oldest continuously standing wooden structures. These temples at nara were started in six o seven a d. And they have survived all kinds of influxes of government and other societies  to this day. I think often when we look at things like population growth, which are closely related to how institutions are judged on growth, that's not going to support them long term.

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