Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly
top-down trying literature
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.
understanding literature impossible
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
trying literature environment
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
organization fire literature
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.
literature complexes
Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
organization literature sometimes
Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.
people literature location
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
simple way literature
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
against factor hearts huge played shut today
We just shut down (in the past). The intimidation factor is huge against this team. But today we just played our hearts out.
influence player positive private school
Being a private school and having a player like this helps. It can't be anything but a positive influence on your program.
bad bit economy softer
We do think the economy is a bit overheated. Architecting a softer landing, if that's what (Greenspan) is doing, is probably not a bad idea.
bad bit economy softer
We do think the economy is a bit overheated, ... Architecting a softer landing, if that's what (Greenspan) is doing, is probably not a bad idea.
against appreciate broken coaching hand heck highlight putting senior seven six spent tape time together year
I tell him sometimes I didn't appreciate him as much as I should have when I was coaching him. But when I spent time putting together his highlight tape for recruiting, wow. His senior year against Archbishop Ryan, he must have broken six or seven tackles on a long run, put a hand down to keep his balance. He's got a heck of a will not to be tackled.
missed three
I still had my confidence. I don't think I've ever missed three in a row.