“Society, community, family are all conserving institutions.”

“Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change.

But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work—on tools, process, and products; on work; on knowledge itself—it must be organized for constant change.”

It must be organized for innovation; and innovation, as the Austro-American economist Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) said, is ‘creative destruction.’

It must be organized for systematic abandonment of the established, the customary, the familiar, the comfortable –whether products, services, and processes, human and social relationships, skills, or organizations themselves.

It is the very nature of knowledge that it changes fast and that today’s certainties will be tomorrow’s absurdities.”