Some times organizations die and don’t know it. Some years ago I was on the board of a non-profit which was service oriented and whose clients were generally from the deveopmentally delayed population. News came that for-profit service providers were considering setting up community residences in competition with those we provided. A hue and cry arose that we would have to stop this threat. No consideration was given that a for-profit might be able to provide the service as well or better, nor was there any thought that economies of scale in purchasing might allow a for-profit to provide housing and meals for less cost. If someone else could do it cheaper or better, why not let them and look for what we could do more effectively than the “competition.”