Occupation: Editor Birth: August 14, 1952
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially..
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….
My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the….
All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of all these connectio….
Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more or….
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 l….
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the ba….
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 hap….
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 bein….
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 ab….
Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options..
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, be….
The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it..
The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing..
We have to get better at believing the impossible..
Nobody is as smart as everybody..
Technology is anything that was invented after you were born..
In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally.
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 spea….
Changing things from the top down works when things are stable..
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment..