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"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
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"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
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"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient."
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"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."
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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."
"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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