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Panel Members:\n1. Rob Alexander, Executive Director, Small Business Development Centers in Springfield\n2. Darin Gerdes, Professor of Management, Charleston Southern University\n\nQuestion for discussion:\n\nFor an organization to thrive, are there any \u201cnecessary conditions\u201d required internal to the organization and its members? By \u201cnecessary conditions,\u201d I mean that an organization will be ineffective at a minimum or ultimately fail to achieve its goals without these conditions.\n\nI\u2019m trying to dig up the roots of organizational effectiveness, and I am interested in the necessary conditions required for all organizations, regardless of size or purpose. We might also delineate between requirements needed for survival versus conditions necessary for thriving.\n\nOne prominent example might be purpose: No organization is sustainable without a purpose. For example, some organizations form to solve an immediate problem. Once that problem is solved, the organization dissolves. Other organizations might fail because an organization\u2019s purpose becomes confused, unclear, or even disagreed upon by its members.