RE: "Survival of the fittest"

[Ross Alex <alex.ross@marshalls.co.uk>]

Carlos Mendez wrote: "Why I'm saying all this? well, lack of constancy of
purpose, short term
thinking and other Deming diseases, under certain circumstances (and to our
dislike), sometimes might result in a better fitness strategy."

Survival of the fittest is all about "appropriateness".  Whoever has the
strategy that is most appropriate for the circumstances *should* survive -
there are no guarantees.  To determine just what is appropriate requires
knowledge and learning  - or maybe we simply *get lucky*

It would be interesting to determine how many companies became *successful*
through adopting the appropriate strategy or just simply getting lucky!