A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

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

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

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

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

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