The mystical twenty year window

I just noticed a pattern amongst some very successful people and organizations – there is a twenty year window from the first success and beginning of the peak, for example, Microsoft or Infosys. Obviously, this is purely a speculation, but with some basis :). Furthermore, towards the end of this first twenty year window or so, the passions work towards another window – most likely by completely reinventing one-self or the organization, perhaps not the first time, but this is most significant re-invention. This is incredibly difficult, but perhaps most satisfying, when successful.

One abstraction for this would find something very reassuring about number 2, than number 1 or 3 or some other number – perhaps due to ‘Law of Diminishing Returns’. Or maybe due to ‘The Power of Two Random Choices’, which doesn’t directly fit, but is somewhat connected.