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Lilia Sanchez

Business 1050

German Lopez de la Madrid

My Renaissance

24 April 2017

My Renaissance: Natural Selection by Charles Darwin.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most

intelligent, but the one most responsive to change (Charles Darwin).

Change is inevitable. There is no way to alter the course of it, but there are

ways to overcome it. What is your best choice when change comes around?

One can deduct from reading Natural Selection by Charles Darwin that the

answer lies in adaptation. There is a larger opportunity to survive when the

species is able to adapt itself to the changes around it because if they do not

they can cease to exist. A business is no different from a species and I would

like to elaborate on this idea and speak a little more about my reactions and

thoughts on the reading of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin.

Natural selection plays its part in the business world as it does

between the species. Natural selection is the process in which nature creates

an environmental change from, which species will adapt and those

successful survive and reproduce. Therefore, nature basically picks out the

species that survives through the changes that it puts out. Economic
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environments are always changing just as nature is, so if the people involved

in them do not adapt to unexpected changes they will lose out. Natural

selection will rule them out.

For natural selection to occur there has to be a change in the

environment. For a species these changes may include things such as:

climate change, deforestation, air quality, habitat loss, changes in food,

biodiversity, invasive species, pollution or waste. Those are a few of the

changes that can affect a species and most of them have been created by

man. Now, lets take a real life example of an animal species that will have to

adapt to survive. The Galago monkeys use trees as a habitat and a food

source because they collect gum from it. As deforestation keeps getting

worse the Galago monkeys have two options to choose from. The first option

is to adapt or their second option is to die. If they do not adapt to the new

environment in which they reside they will slowly cease to exist, so the best

option lies in an adaptation process. Same thing in business there are many

changes that can occur in its environment including: new competitors

moving in, existing competitors moving out, shifts in the population of

consumers, new technologies, new employees come, old employees leave,

drops in the market. There are a large amount of changes that occur in the

business world and they can happen quickly or take time. It is up to

managers, accountants, stockholders, investors, debtors and all other people

involved in the business world to adapt to these changes if they want to

succeed.
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Who succeeds? Who losses? The concept of survival of the fittest works

best to answer these questions. First off, survival of the fittest is the concept

that the species that were best adapted to the environmental changes

continue to exist, while the others are lost through extinction. That means

that the real strength of those that survive lies in their ability to adapt. A

company can be powerful and wealthy, but if they are unwilling to react to

change they can lose out on new opportunities. Which can in the long run

cause others to take them out of business. Say that there is a movement or

shift in the supply and demand curves of a certain product corporations need

to adapt to the new prices and or new quantity because if they dont they

can suffer damages. It all comes down to the idea that those that adapt will

lead because they are changing along with the environment. Those that do

not will lose out because they are busy trying to fight a current that cannot

be stopped.

I strongly believe in the concepts that Charles Darwin talks about

because you can take real life examples and put it up against his theory

realizing that he spoke the truth. I believe in Natural selection because it

makes sense to me. Changes will always occur and you cannot cry about

them because that will not make them go away. What you can do is analyze

the changes and create a plan or process by which you can adapt and move

with the change rather than against it. Sometimes you will be able to adapt

through time, but other times the changes will require a quick response.

Either way for me success comes to those that can adjust to whatever is
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happening around them. Why? In todays world creativity, innovation and an

open mind full of options goes a long way.

To conclude my thoughts I want to mention again the similarity

between the species and business. A species will go through changes in

order to outlive those that cannot adapt. Just like them businesses and those

involved within will also experience changes in their environments and if

they can modify things according to the new environmental changes they

will succeed if not they risk a loss. Those that adjust and mold to the new

conditions in the business world will profit, while the others suffer losses.

Those losses can drive people out of the market. Businesses need to

consider Darwins theory and ask themselves if they are prepared to adapt to

change in order to take a win. If not, are they prepared to take a loss?

Reflection

Business 1050 was a class unlike anything that I had expected. It was

interesting to read from a wide variety of works of philosophers that

influenced the business world. This class involved a lot of reading, critical

thinking, and discussion. My favorite part of the class was the discussions

that we held in class after each reading. Everyone had different opinions or

at least stated them in different ways, which was awesome. The students

were reading the same words, but they had different ways of decoding the

message within. I am glad that I took this class and I do not regret any
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moment of it! I feel like my classmates and I all grew intellectually and just

as better individuals from the beginning until the end.