It's a matter of putting the pieces together in a way that really works. We don't have either the time or the space to operate on the old hierarchical models, to compete on territorial issues, to seek control through withholding information.
The more we have to deal with chaos, the more it is essential to have good information management processes. Design is crucial.
Buckminster Fuller
Dee Hock - Chaordic Alliance
Stafford Beer - Viable Systems Model
and all those developing open source processes