An Organization's Intelligence Is Distributed To The

Humans Are The Reproductive Organs Of Technology.

Clearly, We Are Self-made. We Are The First Technology. We Are Part Inventor And Part The Invented

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.

The Daily Grinding Of Evolution, As Accelerated By Technology, Churns Out More And More Complex Organisms, With Higher Rates Of Energy Use, And With Increasing Specialization. Minds Are The Ideal Way To Express Complexity, Energy Density, Increasing Specialization, Expanding Diversity -- All In One System. Mindedness Is What Evolution Produces. Mindedness Is What Technology Wants, Too.

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.