To Build a Company That Lasts Decades, Don’t Neglect This 1 Factor

How to “outlast”: What Leonardo da Vinci can teach us

This week in Big Think, I explored Leonardo da Vinci’s lifelong obsession with water — and what his fluid way of thinking can teach us about how to outlast in a world defined by constant change. Leonardo saw the world as a system — water not just a fluid, but a metaphor: looping, swirling, self-correcting. To him, motion was life. Turbulence wasn’t chaos, but the mark of something that could become resilient. As I study his work, I begin to real…

To Build a Company That Lasts Decades, Don’t Neglect This 1 Factor

A new book examines why certain companies outlast others—and what you can learn from them.