Business failure is hard to swallow. I once founded a small software business that initially achieved some success but failed after we hooked-up with another software business whose products we introduced to our market. We failed because there were no synergies, their technology sucked (Intersolv - formerly Sage Software) and we simply did not change course.

I'm trying to find a theme that connects the following posts.

From Early Stage VC, Peter Rip post about, "

Doc Searl's, one of the author's of the cluetrain manifesto, has a number

Yesterday in the NY Times there was an article,

There are six externalities that bring about change.

...three great posts and one article on organization development, change, and

The idea of connecting people, places and things is real.