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

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

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.

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

Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

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

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on