Abstract
ORGANIZATIONS are not persons writ large, but they can be usefully viewed as going through discernible stages of development and growth. Applying this perspective to the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) constitutes my basic goal here, and reflects three articles of faith: (1) We have available a body of knowledge and experience that relate to fundamental transitions in organizations, which will either instruct us or which we will force ourselves uneconomically to relearn. (2) SPSA seems to me at or near a critical point of choice and perhaps transition. (3) I am strategically situated-as your president, by training, as well as by consulting experience in government and business-to make this argument.
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