Managing Bottom-up Change Is Its Own Art.

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.

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.

‎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.

Extrapolated, Technology Wants What Life Wants: Increasing Efficiency Increasing Opportunity Increasing Emergence Increasing Complexity Increasing Diversity Increasing Specialization Increasing Ubiquity Increasing Freedom Increasing Mutualism Increasing Beauty Increasing Sentience Increasing Structure Increasing Evolvability

It Has Become Evident That The Primary Lesson Of The Study Of Evolution Is That All Evolution Is Coevolution: Every Organism Is Evolving In Tandem With The Organisms Around It.