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

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

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.

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

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.

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

The organization and the environment are in concert.