The organization and the environment are in concert.

Quote by Kevin Kelly

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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...

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

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

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

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a...

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a...

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts...

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts...

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...

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

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...

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

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

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

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

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 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...

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make...

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make...

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

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

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

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

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.