Successful Organisation Traits

What are the characteristics of a successful organisation?, the following pointers describe what a successful organisation may show:

Strategic vision directed from top level management, with all managers in agreement.
Organsiational change is carried out in small realistic steps as opposed to rapid change. This means the organisation embraces change successfully.
The organisation is pro-active to market conditions, seeking new markets before its competitors, rather than waiting for them to develop.
The organisation understands that not all change can be good, change because your competitors embrace a new ethic does not automatically mean that it will work for your business.
Employees should be treated as vital resources of an organisation. Harnessing and nurturing employee development will reap its own rewards, in terms of productivity but also loyalty and organisational development.
Senior managers should be seen and visible.
Some of the most successful businesses use a 'single status' ethic, with removed levels of demarcation, and effective de-layering of the organisational structures.