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- Organization
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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
- Being
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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.
- 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.
- Past
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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
- Evident
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It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.
- Environment
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
- Environment
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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
- Looking
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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.
- Environment
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The organization and the environment are in concert.
- Equally
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All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
- Future
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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.
- Mind
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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.
- Misunderstanding
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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
- Complex System
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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
- Simple
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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
- Distributed
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An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
- Much
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It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
- Design
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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
- Limits
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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.
- Design
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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
- History
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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.
- Product
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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.
- Great
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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
- Out
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Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.
- Change
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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.
- Bottom-Up
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Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
- Innovation
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The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
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