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Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
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... →
An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But... →
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem... →
Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable... →
The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control... →