Business Systems Quotes

“When we look at supply chains and distribution in nature, we see that natural systems include an abundance of nodes in a network. Distribution is widely spread - enough to include the maximum nodes feasible yet not enough to add unnecessary time or cost to the path a thing takes from source to destination.

This maximizes efficiency, and minimizes the risk of congestion and bottle-necks.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Ecosystems have the power to positively disrupt economic systems. BMaaS (Business Models-as-a-System) harness open ecosystems as a complex set of interacting relationships and networks. The stronger these relationships, the more resilient the systems.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“When we start learning from and working with fungi, there will be no such thing as trash anymore. And there are so many business opportunities in that.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“In closed loop systems, flow facilitates flow. Liquidity facilitates liquidity.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Fungi are decentralized intelligence networks. They send information multi-directionally, they constantly evolve and adapt based on feedback from their environment, they invent new molecules to collaborate... And they form a decentralized consensus on how to utilize resources, when to reproduce and what strategies to employ. This is how businesses and business ecosystems should be.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In terms of systems design, shapes are important. Rectangles are not common in nature. That's probably because from a systems design perspective, rectangles often degrade efficiency instead of contributing to efficiency. Yet humans have designed an entire supply chain system based on rectangles, squares and straight lines. If we want to be more efficient, we should replace those rectangles, squares and straight lines with ovals, circles and hexagons. And maybe some other nature inspired geometries.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“A correctly tuned system must be able to run for years at full load without slowing down nor crashing.”
― David M. Finkel, Build a Business, Not a Job: Grow Your Business & Get Your Life Back