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.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

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

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

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