Rotten On The Inside

"I've come to see institutional decline like a disease: harder to detect but easier to cure in the early stages; easier to detect but harder to cure in the later stages. An institution can look strong on the outside but already be sick on the inside, dangerously on the cusp of a precipitous fall." – Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall: A Primer on the Warning Signs,

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