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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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"If you have no job, help is needed."
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"Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help."
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"Seek help from God."
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"Do not be ashamed of help."
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"It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already."
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"Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it."
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"Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her."
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"In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices."
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"We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there."
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"I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog."
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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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"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."
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"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 basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
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"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
Environment

"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
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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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"The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing."
Change

"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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"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 ability to evolve in certain directions."
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"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
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