Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

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

In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.