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1. "Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals." ~ Kevin Kelly
2. "Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as you put in place an active strategy to offset any possibility of that scenario." ~ Kevin Kelly
3. "What excites the media is that someone has a great idea or vision and makes millions as a result. The reality is that rarely happens. It is competency that unlocks a person's potential."Tim Clark excerpt from DO! the pursuit of xceptional execution" ~ Kevin Kelly
4. "You'll always have enough reasons not to execute, not to do: not enough time, not enough money, not enough will or skill.But what matters isn't what you lack. What matters isn't your idea but what you do with it. What will you do?" ~ Kevin Kelly
5. "It's about how to deal with the idea killer in your own head, the part of your brain where fear and knowledge keep you from executing the brilliant ideas your mind generates every day." ~ Kevin Kelly
6. "A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client." ~ Kevin Kelly
7. "In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally" ~ Kevin Kelly
8. "?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." ~ Kevin Kelly
9. "The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it." ~ Kevin Kelly
10. "We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob." ~ Kevin Kelly
11. "...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea." ~ Kevin Kelly
12. "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
13. "Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:Increasing efficiencyIncreasing opportunityIncreasing emergenceIncreasing complexityIncreasing diversityIncreasing specializationIncreasing ubiquityIncreasing freedomIncreasing mutualismIncreasing beautyIncreasing sentienceIncreasing structureIncreasing evolvability" ~ Kevin Kelly
14. "A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness." ~ Kevin Kelly
15. "The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work." ~ Kevin Kelly
16. "All imaginable futures are not equally possible." ~ Kevin Kelly
17. "An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous." ~ Kevin Kelly
18. "In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself." ~ Kevin Kelly
19. "Humans are the reproductive organs of technology." ~ Kevin Kelly
20. "Managing bottom-up change is its own art." ~ Kevin Kelly
21. "An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time." ~ Kevin Kelly
22. "Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms." ~ Kevin Kelly
23. "Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far." ~ Kevin Kelly
24. "The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time." ~ Kevin Kelly
25. "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." ~ Kevin Kelly
26. "It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time." ~ Kevin Kelly
27. "Changing things from the top down works when things are stable." ~ Kevin Kelly
28. "It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially." ~ Kevin Kelly
29. "Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design." ~ Kevin Kelly
30. "Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives." ~ Kevin Kelly
31. "Willingness to learn is important, willingness to act on what you learn is critical." ~ Kevin Kelly
32. "Sometimes you live life, and sometimes life happens to you. But you always get to choose what you do about it." Devon Brooks" ~ Kevin Kelly
33. "My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq" ~ Kevin Kelly
34. "In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path." ~ Kevin Kelly
35. "Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously." ~ Kevin Kelly
36. "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

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