BUS 1050-016
My Renaissance Essay
Throughout this course, I have had the opportunity to expand my way of thinking through
what applications and concepts have impacted the history and development of business
throughout the centuries. To me, any form of personal renaissance can be an ah hah! moment
in which your perception could be changed through the gaining of knowledge and critical
thinking, which was greatly incorporated into this course. The reading I found the most
interesting and astonished to find in the course was on the theory of Natural Selection by Charles
Darwin. My initial thought was How does the evolution of species and living organisms connect
with foundations of business? but as I read and later discussed in class, the theory of evolutions
would absolutely influence the business fundamentals. Just like species in the animal kingdom,
it is essential for the survival of a business that it evolve and innovate as time and society
progresses as to not go extinct. Seeing how the theory of natural selection could be implicated
into business allowed me to be more self-aware to my life and education and evaluate if Im
currently stagnant or if I have been evolving to what surrounds me to allow for my survival.
Perhaps, one of the most important characteristics a business and its owners and
shareholders can have is the capability to see and acknowledge when change is in order to
progress further. In evolution, any species in its environment could be threatened by changes in
other species or climate, whos concept has helped adopted the phrase survival of the fittest
and describes the ability for one to fight for its survival and learn to thrive in its new
environment. One example within the animal kingdom is the competition of male mountain goats
against one another to be deemed the most dominant amongst all and have the right to procreate.
Similarly, businesses must compete with one another and evolve whenever an advantageous
opportunity presents itself to maintain its dominance or survive. Unwillingness to change when
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observations indicate it is necessary for either an individual or a business will call for extinction.
Most of my educational and personal life I have been intrigued by the nature of humans
and their psychology and how it is that we have come to be the species we are today and how it
is that we drifted off from the branch we shared with our cousin species, the apes. Small
variations in our DNA and mutations that occurred through our ancestry line to be the human
species. And although Darwins theory of natural selection was based on organic objects, its
fundamental elements are comparable to businesses growth and deciding what traits are to be
carried through the process of evolution and which will require change. What was explained in
the reading regarding natural selection and businesses is that the business itself should be the
entity that evolves and not a certain individual within the organization. Business, not being an
organic object, requires humans to seek what changes must be made with the current system to
The main reason and purpose for natural selection is based on the need of organisms to
produce offspring with mutations or variations that will allow them to survive in a world that
made it difficult for their parents or ancestors hard to live in. It is important that small variations
of genetics will continue to variate as the hereditary line continues to future generations.
As mentioned before, any business unwilling to adapt to change will be harming itself as
well as the individuals that work within the industry. Corporations in an industry what are stick
to traditional methods and refuse progress will begin to feel its foundations crumbling as people
look for careers in other industries that offer progress and innovation rather than a stagnant
career. Since humans initially start looking for their survival in life, they will choose a career
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field that will allow them good economic standing and comfortability for themselves and their
offspring as well.
As evolution and many offspring with variations are introduced, the process of natural
selection help weed out the weaker individual, which also happens in business. This allows us to
see what methods of business are working and what elements need to be mortified.
This reading was especially interesting to read and see how Darwins theory of Natural
Selection, which was initially intended for scientific explanations, could be used to develop and
improve the field of business as well as involving my curiosity with psychology and the reason