But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

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Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop...

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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the...

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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

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We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and...

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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very...

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The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it...

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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the...

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

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But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that...

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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part...

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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to...

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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future,...

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Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment,...

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The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably...

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Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over...

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Love is a maze, life is a riddle, and I'm just a little bit caught...

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Convenience too often trumps security, but complexity trumps even best effort.