For its part, the operating adhocracy is often associated with young organizations. For one thing, with no standard products or services, organiza that use it tend to be highly vulnerable, and many of them disappear at an early age. For another, age drives these organizations toward bureaucracy, as the employees themselves age and tend to seek an escape from the instability of the structure and its environment. The innovative consulting firm converges on a few of its most successful projects, packages them into standard skills, and settles down to life as a professional bureaucracy, the manufacturer of prototypes hits on a hot product and becomes a machine bureaucracy to mass produce it.