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

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

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

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.

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

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.