"Managers tend to treat organizations as if they……" — Kevin Kelly
"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."
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46 Quotes by Kevin Kelly
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This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central…
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Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.
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I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.
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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not…
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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can…
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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
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Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment,…
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
— Dave Barry
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of…
— Theodor Adorno
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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad…
— Jo Brand
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I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff…
— Luke Bryan
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so…
— Pearl S. Buck
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
— Pearl S. Buck
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
— Michael Chabon
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be…
— Eric Clapton
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