The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

We have to get better at believing the impossible.

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.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

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

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

‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.