Occupation: Editor Birth: August 14, 1952
In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally.
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 ….
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….
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 c….
What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion.….
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….
Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time..
Technology is anything that doesn't work yet..
Technology is anything that was invented after you were born..
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time..
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design..
Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, becau….
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….
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 wi….
Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argum….
A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client..
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen.