b"INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY The reason for this is either that those senior executives who have risentotheirseniorpositionsthroughalifetimeofwiseexecutive behavior are unable to change their habits or that if their habits are changed, their subordinates will not believe that they really mean it. And in many ways, they see a vindication of their skepticism.e.Theneedforrigor:organizationandcreativitydonotseemtogo together, but organization and compliance do. Thedefenseofapermissiveenvironmentforcreativityinan organizationisoftenaveiledattackontheveryideaofthe organization.Thisquicklybecomesclearwhenwerecognizethis inescapable fact.One of the collateral goals of an organization is to be inhospitable to a large and constant flow of ideas and creativity.Whether it is a large corporation or a large labor group, an army or the Salvation Army, a country like the United States or the People's Republic of China, the purpose of organization is to achieve the type and degree of order and conformity necessary to perform a particular job.To do this, the organization exists to restrict and channel the range of individual actions and behaviors, a predictable and knowable routine. Without organizational routine, there would be chaos and decadence. The organization exists to create the number and kind of inflexibility necessary to get the most urgent work done efficiently and on time.Creativityandinnovationdisruptthisorder.Therefore,the organizationtendstobeinhospitabletocreativityandinnovation, although without creativity and innovation, it would eventually perish.Thisiswhysmallorganizationsaresooftenmorelivelyand Innovativethan large ones. They have virtually no organization precisely because they are one-person businesses and are often run by people who act on impulse.Organizationsarecreatedtobringorder.Theyhavepolicies, procedures and rules that are not directly expressed in a formal way but are well understood.Theworkforwhich,theorganizationexists,couldnotbe accomplished without these rules, procedures, and policies. Germain Decelles227"