Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.
The organization and the environment are in concert.
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.
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.