Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly
organization growth limits
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen
organization environmental environment
The organization and the environment are in concert.
organization environmental turbulence
When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.
organization persistent
An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
organization function anticipate
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
past organization way
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
organization easier
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
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.
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.
organization able helping
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.
thinking organization mind
We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.
organization
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
order organization growth
Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.
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.