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

Quote by Kevin Kelly

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

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

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

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

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around...

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around...

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire,...

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire,...

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

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

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

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

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

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

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

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

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

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a...

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a...

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

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

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

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

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

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

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

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set...

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set...

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a...

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a...

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

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