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 absorbaddcapacity share on social
The organization and the environment are in concert. Kevin Kelly concertenvironmentorganization Change image and share on social
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 changedealenvironment Change image and share on social
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. Kevin Kelly advancelivetechnological Change image and share on social
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 anticipatefunctionfuture Change image and share on social
The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part. Kevin Kelly environmentpartthing Change image and share on social
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here. Kevin Kelly anticipateevolutionfuture share on social
Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. Kevin Kelly complexmake Change image and share on social
Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. Kevin Kelly buildcomplexitylayer Change image and share on social
It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time. Kevin Kelly babysitbehaviorchild share on social
