That led to an article in Foreign Policy called Adapt or Die, in which he declared: "If the genus Americanus wants to overcome this latest challenge to its existence, it must adapt its defense mechanisms accordingly.
Specifically, Ikea's Web site proclaims: "It is not enough to be friendly to the environment, we must adapt to it".
Meanwhile GE is in and out of the Elysée palace, chatting with President François Hollande and his aides, improving its offer in the light of their concerns and, it seems, winning supporters.All this says something about how France operates and how foreign firms must adapt to it.
When the headline maintained that "We have failed to prevent global warming, so we must adapt to it", the "we" referred in these instances to different people.
So businesses must adapt to it in a rational, cost-effective manner.
To survive as a contemporary (as opposed to revivalist) form it must adapt, but the more it adapts to its surroundings and absorbs influences from rock, soul, R&B or hip hop, the more it risks simply vanishing into the wallpaper.
Being absent was difficult, he said in a telephone interview from London today, but he planned to be back in Utah for the institute's annual festival post-mortem in a few weeks, where decisions are made about where independent film is heading and how Sundance must adapt to match it.
Being exposed to the prying eyes of foreign governments means it must adapt to withstand such scrutiny; those using it can accurately grasp the risks, and need not rely on faith in America's goodwill, or on software developers keeping certain things secret.
Israel itself faces new threats and must maintain its conventional military edge; it must adapt to new asymmetric threats from Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, and it has to deal with the growing possibility of an Iranian nuclear threat to its very existence.
Although the future direction of Chinese economy is unclear, we do not think China is heading for a hard landing in the near term, but it must adapt to new realities and become more agile than it has been in the past in order to avoid a hard landing in the longer-term.
