All Kevin Kelly Quotes
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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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
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An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
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Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
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This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
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An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
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Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
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It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
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