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To win in a Red Queen race, organizations will have to detect, respond, and adapt on many fronts simultaneously, something most of today’s organizations are not designed to do. Some companies will find ways to do this. Those that can’t will not survive.

Offhand, one might suppose that large organizations with their many divisions of labor would be much more prolific at adding new work to old than would small organizations. But this is not so. In a large organization, nearly all the divisions of labor, no matter how many there are, must necessarily be sterile in this respect. The various goods and

hiring needs would expand to include a major role for less skilled professionals and more paraprofessionals, since the increased structuring of familiar engagement types would allow the firm to employ an increasing degree of…

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People might not just reduce or increase the number of hours they work as employees. They might switch between employment (fulltime and/or part-time) and freelance work; they might at other times choose to volunteer, donate money, or temporarily have no involvement at all with an organization, only to come back later. There can be combinations; the