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...REDESIGNING ORGANIZATIONS 8 Managing the Process of Organizational Innovation ANDREW H. VAN DE VEN No thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then...

...and to wait. As Epictetus puts it : "If you tell me that you would at this moment have a fig, I will answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear, then ripen." And in the meantime there is a lot of work to be done about the roots. After all, however,...