The Starfish and the Spider : The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (Hardcover)

from bsanner

A really interesting read on organizational structure and leadership. Traditional organizations are often hierarchical and authoritarian. Like spiders, if you cut off a leg (or department), it's weakened; if you cut off it's head (leader/board), and it's dead. Other organizations, however, resemb...

from beaurichly

Great, quick read with useful examples of how centralized, command and control organizations can fail by assuming that engagement with distributed (or "cloud-based") entities can follow the same rules as engagement with other command and control organizations. I have cited this book frequently in...

from hogan1040

This book totally rocks my world!

from bsanner

A really interesting read on organizational structure and leadership. Traditional organizations are often hierarchical and authoritarian. Like spiders, if you cut off a leg (or department), it's weakened; if you cut off it's head (leader/board), and it's dead. Other organizations, however, resemb...

from ldmarquet

My name is David Marquet, from Practicum, Inc and we help our customers achieve organizational success by getting each person to act as a leader. Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom's book, The Starfish and the Spider, is a compelling description of the strengths and weaknesses of decentralized (the st...