Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals. Kevin Kelly More Quotes by Kevin Kelly More Quotes From Kevin Kelly Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing. Kevin Kelly business heart years It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. Kevin Kelly easier organization literature 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. Kevin Kelly lessons evolution literature A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client. Kevin Kelly clients unique opportunity But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. Kevin Kelly top-down literature trying Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes. Kevin Kelly memes technology ideas How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success. Kevin Kelly feedback entrepreneur views We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.' Kevin Kelly lasts looks years The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system. Kevin Kelly fringe overwhelmed innovation The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. Kevin Kelly simple literature way Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come. Kevin Kelly technology self children Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do. Kevin Kelly jobs Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment. Kevin Kelly investing sin two An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time. Kevin Kelly persistent organization literature Managing bottom-up change is its own art. Kevin Kelly bottom literature art 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. Kevin Kelly organization literature sometimes The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it. Kevin Kelly physics law way A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead. Kevin Kelly self lying years The very long tail of the future is already here. Kevin Kelly tails long Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. Kevin Kelly environment literature trying
