Nobody Is As Smart As Everybody.

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.

Species Go Extinct Because There Are Historical Contraints Built Into A Given Body Or A Given Design.

We Tend To Think Of The Mind Of An Organization Residing In The Ceo And The Organization's Top Managers, Perhaps With The Help Of Outside Consultants That They Call In. But That Is Not Really How An Organization Thinks.

Humans Are The Reproductive Organs Of Technology.

‎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.