[errantmind]

This seems optimistic to the point of being naive. Have you worked at many large corporations? None of the ones I've worked at attempted to perpetuate anything other than their own preservation, at any cost, and their profits. They weren't interested in 'progress' of any kind unless it furthered those previous purposes, and even then they didn't do it very well. They fought innovation all the way up until it was an absolute necessity.

[jqpabc123]

None of the ones I've worked at attempted to perpetuate anything other than their own preservation

At least they have addressed job 1.

Any organization that doesn't perpetuate itself has failed ... period, the end. There is nothing beyond. It's not possible for a failed, fractured, dysfunctional, non-existent entity to innovate.

Corporations are the worst organizations ... except for all the others that fail the primary test of survival.