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Kevin Kelly Quotes

American - Editor | August 14, 1952 -

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.

Mind Organization Think Help Top

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

Work Simple Build Way System Works

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

Together Simple Smart Brain Society

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Intelligence Organization Point Being

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

Change Organization Easier Than Much

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Design Adapt Far Made Too Organisms

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

Design Body Go Historical Because

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.

Best Stop Sometimes Product Get

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

More Technological See Clearly Own

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

Work Over Out Up Complexity Built

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

Down Top Things Changing Stable

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.

Change Best Environment Down Kind

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