Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)

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Diversion Books, Oct 14, 2014 - Business & Economics - 249 pages
Frost & Sullivan's 2014 Growth, Innovation, and Leadership Book of the Year

"EXPONENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS should be required reading for anyone interested in the ways exponential technologies are reinventing best practices in business." —Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google

In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth.

In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company—the Exponential Organization—that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using technology. An ExO can eliminate the incremental, linear way traditional companies get bigger, leveraging assets like community, big data, algorithms, and new technology into achieving performance benchmarks ten times better than its peers.

Three luminaries of the business world—Salim Ismail, Yuri van Geest, and Mike Malone—have researched this phenomenon and documented ten characteristics of Exponential Organizations. Here, in EXPONENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS, they walk the reader through how any company, from a startup to a multi-national, can become an ExO, streamline its performance, and grow to the next level.

"EXPONENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS is the most pivotal book in its class. Salim examines the future of organizations and offers readers his insights on the concept of Exponential Organizations, because he himself embodies the strategy, structure, culture, processes, and systems of this new breed of company." —John Hagel, The Center for the Edge

Chosen by Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, to be one of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2015
 

Contents

Foreword
Exploring the Exponential Organization
A Tale of Two Companies
The Exponential Organization
Inside the Exponential Organization
Implications of Exponential Organizations
Building the Exponential Organization
ExOs and MidMarket Companies
ExOs for Large Organizations
Big Companies Adapt
The Exponential Executive
A New Cambrian Explosion
Afterword
Sources and Inspirations
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Peter H. Diamandis received degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and an MD from Harvard Medical School. He is the founder of more than 15 high-tech companies. He is the co-author of Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think and Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World.

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