PART VII: THE INCAPACITY

Can they fix it? The answer is no, and the evidence is arithmetic.

Four consulting firms examined thousands of corporate transformations across two decades. All four converged on the same finding: failure rates between seventy and eighty-eight percent. The executives who must transform are the same executives selected by the system they would need to transform. The org charts are fossilized. The software encodes the fossils. Every layer resists the surgery.

This section documents why reform from within is structurally impossible — and why the next technological revolution will be captured by the same forces that captured every previous one.