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The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen
Kevin Kelly
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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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The young are always coming up with the good ideas it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.
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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.
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It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
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Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.
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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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We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.'
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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.
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Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
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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.
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The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.
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Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented
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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.
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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.
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I work in a you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours kind of a place.
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Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.
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Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.
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How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.
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The organization and the environment are in concert.
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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
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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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