The organization and the environment are in concert.

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.

How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.