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An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#over #persistent #relationships #set #time

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #being #change #deal #each

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #areas #attraction #cannot #complex

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#down #stable #things #top #works

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#add #capacities #downsize #fire #hire

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#been #daily #i #island #mill

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #functions #future #organism #organization

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#best #even #get #into #invested

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#body #built #design #extinct #given