Endings don't happen spectacularly

Death very seldom arrives with fanfare.

It's not normally the end result of a spectacular explosion, or an event that drives a headline.

Death happens slowly, largely undetected.

A silent, ongoing creeping decay, while still engaged with living. The journey of dying progresses patiently, behind a veil of aging.

Entropy is part of the cycle of life, by unlike individual living beings, systems can be refreshed through intentional renewal.

By looking at the world with fresh eyes, embarking on continuous journeys of learning, staying curious about change and constantly resetting all calibrations of success back to zero, living systems build life back into themselves.

Left to the mercy of the elements and time, buildings slowly crumble and collapse, ships rust and glass shatters. Without constant tendering and renewal, entropy ensures cycle completion.

Maintaining a good contextual fit with the environment in which it creates value is what innovation aims to achieve.

Too ordered, too rigid, too attached to an understanding of an operating environment that no longer exists and decay is accelerated.

Endings don't happen spectacularly. But 'ending' is the default mode of all organisations, unless innovation is adopted to restart the cycle.