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

Salim Ismail

Oct 2014 · Diversion Books

About this ebook

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

Ratings and reviews

Extremely inspiring book about how to become an exponential growing organization. What are the characteristics and how to recognize such organizations. What can you learn from the best practices and what are the elements that can make you one. In order to understand and feel the possibilities you need a certain open mind and willingness to step out of your comfort zone. More creatives will immidiately understand, others will have difficulties to understand or feel. Highly recommended!

Great read and had definitely changed the way I see innovation. I am now starting my own exponential organization that will implement SCALE and IDEAS

Fantastic insight into the world of business... Now, and increasingly in the future. A must read for business leaders today.

About the author

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.