Dissemination of Knowledge

It is just amazing just how one can draw parallels between things we understand and the things we try to understand (may be thats the way a human brain functions)
a thing or two that corporations can learn from formation and sustainability of civilizations and cultures is that they were written down/ noted and then passed on for generations to come.
they had very clearly stated foundations (founding principles -- mission vision ... don't know about strategy)
it will be very fruitful to know and understand .. what characteristics made these fundamentals last for an infinitesimal ( if I may call it) time .. or simple made them time less/ immortal (सनातन - from where the time begins to where the time would end)
were they popular .. or some very un-populist in nature ... but had the most noble motto in the womb ... i.e. welfare of living being
was it the faith element they were able to build .. what made people to put faith into a practice, a saying or into a person for that matter
I am a strong believer that religions were written .. the people (the drafting committee) were very good psychologists, they were able to breakdown to the very basic elements of human thinking brain .. they were so far sighted that they understood what changes would be brought in the coming times due to changes in environment and what changes the very creative human being would be able to impose on the planet. they had an amazing art of story telling .. few characters strewn around the morals .. which are easily digested as kinder garten fairy tales
I would also argue that the most immortal of the religions would be the most liberal ones .. the one who were open to accept the changes (I admire the constitutions . .which are very democratic in nature .. open to amendments .. farsighted enough to accommodate the changing needs of the society ... not a Hitler style "Mein Kampf" which was made a text book and people were made to swallow and follow it unconditionally WITH OUT A QUESTION)
one more characteristic of the long lasting cultures/ civilizations would be .. 'the openness to the arguments' which brings on the best minds at work and a path of 'arguably the best' is laid for the society . .i.e. again open to change.

so what can corporations and civilizations have in common (for all this blah blah)
1. both are public bodies
2. both have perpetuity as the fundamental (directive) principle
3 .both have growth at the center of their agenda (I love this punch line form Reliance 'Growth is life')
4. both have a mission, vision .. and different people at helm have different strategies (another characteristic - leaders keep changing and interpret the culture differently)
5. both need human aspirations (i would call fear& greed - again arguably these are the two only basic human traits just above the basic needs of रोटी कपडा और मकान) aligned to the overall VMS

so what can be done .. lay down the most basic fundamentals... pass them on generation to generation to give them perpetuity and a liberal outlook of adapting with times .. make sure they have the characteristics of a सनातन culture