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

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"We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work."

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"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."

Change

"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."

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"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 looking at."

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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."

Time

"The organization and the environment are in concert."

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

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"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other."

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