# Alexander Rose: Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations

An episode of [Long Now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/186908455), 23 Sep 2021, 45 min.

Audio: https://podcast.longnow.org/salt/redirect/salt-020210420-rose-podcast.mp3

One of \[Long Now\](https://longnow.org/)’s founding premises is that humanity’s most significant challenges require long-term solutions, including institutions that caretake and guide the knowledge and commitment needed to work over long time scales. However, there are a limited number of organizations that have managed to stay stable over many centuries, and in some cases, over a millennium. Long Now has been informally tracking these organizations for years, and in 02019 formed \[The Organizational Continuity Project\](https://longnow.org/continuity/) to study long-lived institutions more formally. \[Alexander Rose\](https://longnow.org/people/board/zander/), Long Now's Executive Director, discusses how The Organizational Continuity Project hopes to discover the lessons behind these long-lived organizations and build a discipline of shareable knowledge that will help contemporary institutions, companies, and governments develop into robust, long-lasting structures. In turn, we hope these institutions will be better equipped to address civilizational-scale problems with multi-generational thinking.

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