Signs of a falling organization :

• Nepotism and lack of meritocracy ;
• Overall slowness in new projects, change embrace and innovation ;
• A proxy, or worse, an internal and unrelated metric, becoming the thing, rather than the success of the organization being the thing ;
• A defensive stance towards external actors ;
• Natural ability to reject talents and individuals wanting to shake the system ;
• Narratives decorrelated from real actions and intentions.

Examples of currently falling organizations :

• Europe ;
• Most of CAC40 ;
• French state ;
• Oil&Gas companies ;
• Banks.

Example of formerly falling, now standing, organizations :

• Microsoft ;
• Chinese government ;
• US government (impressive Biden turn on infrastructre and tax rate, swiftly killing Europe and China in one blow).