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

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.

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

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

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.