Kevin Kelly Quotes About Environment
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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
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The organization and the environment are in concert.
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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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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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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.
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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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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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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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