Metabolism

"...It's producing something, excreting waste, growing or shrinking, adapting or failing to adapt. It will almost certainly outlive your tenure. It has a metabolism, a lifecycle, immune responses that attack foreign ideas. Here's what you may not have realized: look at the words again. Organ. Organism."

"...rong things and blocking the needed things. You now have a framework for designing better ones. Use it. In the next chapter, we'll dive deeper into metabolism - how organizations convert resources into value, why burn rate is biological, and why the companies that optimize purely for efficiency often die fa..."

"Chapter 2: Metabolism & Burn Rate The Biology of Burn Rate A hummingbird is two hours from death at any given moment. Not from predators. Not from disease."

"...egically survived. If companies are organisms - and as we established in Chapter 1, they function as living systems with membranes, homeostasis, and metabolism - then understanding how organisms actually grow becomes essential. Not metaphorically. Mechanistically. This chapter explores the biological machin..."

"Documents how Schulz observed that low doses of disinfectants (mercury, formaldehyde) stimulated yeast metabolism rather than inhibiting it. Explains the biphasic dose-response curve and why the concept was marginalized due to association with homeopathy. *Wik..."