Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

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Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

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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.

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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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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

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Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

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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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