Here is another attempt to try and define a ‘law’ that i have observed in multiple organisations. In any sufficiently long-lived organisation, all change initiatives will incur an increasingly significant overhead caused by unpicking the detritus accumulated through previous initiatives — me If this statement is accurate, then an important skill required within long lived organisations is, what i would term Enterprise Archeology, the ability to dig through the sub-surface of an organisation and make sense and contextualise the broken or half-missing artefacts of previous civilisations.