Today, everything is accelerating change, with one incredibly important exception. There has been no loss of institutional float. Although their size and power have increased, there has been virtually no new idea of organization since the concepts of university, corporation and nation-state emerged. The newest is more than three centuries old People think of this as movement from the industrial age to the information age. The industrial age was really the age of machine-crafting, which is primarily an extension of muscle.
Information is the raw material of the mind, which means that it's really the age of mind-crafting.
We're experiencing radically different, ever changing societal diversity and complexity and trying to manage it with archaic, seventeenth century concepts of organization and management. It demands extraordinarily different concepts of organizations, management and societal structures. I call it this new age chaordic because it will be immensely complex and chaotic, but also requires cohesion and coherence, or order. What we have always thought of as opposites, such as competition and cooperation, will now have to be seamlessly blended. This doesn't mean that our present concepts of organization are bad and should be destroyed.