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

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 basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

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.

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

We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.'

Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.