Chaotic organizations are driven by counteracting forces of change and stability. These forces contain the seeds of order and chaos. On one hand, forces of change are destabilizing because of their tendency to push the system out of its "orbit." Experimentation, incoherence, diverse and diverging activities from the organization thrust are all sources of instability. They create demands which are not necessarily consistent with the planned objectives. They are sources of internal disorder which might lead to major changes in the future. However, the forces of change favor, paradoxically, the emergence of a new form of order and stability. They can become an organizing device and create the conditions for a new order to come. Disorder gives an opportunity to explore new ways of doing and acting. As a consequence, it might facilitate adaptation to the unknown demands of the environment. Since the evolution of the environment is unpre- dictable, internal disorder, by generating multiple responses, provides a means to explore diverse modes of operation. And one or several modes can become the new organizational equilibrium whose characteristics are impossible to anticipate. Smith (1986), for instance, referring to the works of von Bertalanffy (1975) and those of Jantsch (1980), insists upon the necessary experimentation that organizations must undertake if they want to survive. Experimentation with new organi- zational paradigms permits the development of catalogues of configurations from which the organization will be able to choose when the forces of change are more powerful than organizational viscosity and resistance.