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Kevin Kelly, born on August 14, 1952, is a seasoned editor with a broad influence in the fields of technology, culture, and art. He has held editing positions at several renowned publishing houses and brought many excellent works to readers.

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“An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.”

Literature Organization Persistent

Author:Kevin Kelly

“The organization and the environment are in concert.”

Literature Environment Organization Environmental Concerts

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“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.”

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“The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen”

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Book:Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World

Source: Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World

“An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.”

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

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

Literature Easier Organization

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“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.”

Ifs Literature Fire Limits Capacity Program Organization Treats Add Managers Plastic Downsizing

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“Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.”

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“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.”

Thinking Mind Helping Literature Organization Managers Ceo Consultants

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“Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.”

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

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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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About the Author

Born: August 14, 1952
Known for: Editor
Quotes: 99

Books & Sources

Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known EarlierRelated source material

What Technology WantsRelated source material

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic WorldRelated source material

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected WorldRelated source material

Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological CivilizationRelated source material

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