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Best Thing: Reviewers praise "One From Many" for its insightful exploration of organizational theory and the concept of chaordic systems, highlighting its thought-provoking ideas about self-organization and the importance of nonmonetary exchanges in communities. Worst Thing: Some reviewers criticize the book for being dense and challenging to read, noting that its complex ideas may be difficult for some readers to fully grasp or apply in practical situations.
- Chaordic: border btw chaos and order; complexity “science” studies this
- “educe” is to bring out from within
- Community relies above all on the nonmonetary exchange of value
- Most concise definition of organization is agreement
- Influencing the future requires mastering four ways of looking at things: as they were, as they are, as they might become, as they should be.
- People deprived of self-organization and self-governance are inherently ungovernable
- What is the genetic code of organizations?
- Information is difference that makes a difference . Anything else is noise
- Crustti- capacity to receive, utilize, store, tranform and transmit information —
- The will to succeed, the grace to compromise (cufflinks)