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The organization and the environment are in concert.

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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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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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Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

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All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: Unknown

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