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Frost & Sullivan’s 2014 Growth, Innovation, and Leadership Book of the Year

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

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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

"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 --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Salim Ismail is the founding Executive Director at Singularity University, where he moderates most academic programs, and is its current Global Ambassador. Before that, as a vice president at Yahoo, he built and ran Brickhouse, Yahoo's internal incubator. His most recent company, Angstro, was sold to Google in August 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies including PubSub Concepts, which laid some of the foundation for the real-time web. He also spent several years as a management consultant with CSC Europe and later with ITIM Associates. Ismail holds a B.Sc. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Michael S. Malone is one of the world's best-known technology writers. He has covered Silicon Valley and high-tech for more than 30 years, beginning with the San Jose Mercury News as the nation's first daily high-tech reporter. Malone's articles and editorials regularly appear in the Wall Street Journal. He was editor of Forbes ASAP, the world's largest-circulation business-tech magazine, at the height of the dot-com boom. Malone is the author or co-author of nearly twenty award-winning books and television series, notably the best-selling The Virtual Corporation, Bill and Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World's Greatest Company, and The Future Arrived Yesterday: The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means For You. Malone holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, where he is currently an adjunct professor in professional writing. He is also an associate fellow of the Saïd Business School at Oxford University, and is a Distinguished Friend of Oxford.

Yuri van Geest is an international keynote speaker, boardroom consultant, the managing director of the Singularity University Summit Europe, the Dutch Ambassador for Singularity University and a double alumnus of Singularity's programs. He holds a M.Sc. degree in strategic management and marketing from Erasmus University Rotterdam and has been a key figure, firestarter and organizer in the global Lean Startup, Quantified Self, TEDx and Mobile Monday movements. He has consulted for Google, ING Bank, Vodafone Group, Adidas Global, Philips Global, Heineken Global, Friesland Campina, Samsung and MIT, and was a key member of the Topteam Creative Industry within the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation for two years.

Peter H. Diamandis is a serial entrepreneur having co-founded 15 companies, most notably the X Prize Foundation, Singularity University and Planetary Resources. He has a molecular biology and aerospace engineering degree from MIT and an MD from Harvard. He is also the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, Abundance: The Future Is Much Better Than You Think, which is recommended pre-reading for those interested in Exponential Organizations. CNN and Fortune just named Peter Diamandis one of "The World's 50 Greatest Leaders." --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Peter H. Diamandis
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Dr. Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and launching large incentive prizes to drive radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. Best known for the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight and the $10 million Progressive Automotive X PRIZE for 100 mile-per-gallon equivalent cars, the Foundation is now launching prizes in Exploration, Life Sciences, Energy, and Education.
Diamandis is also an international leader in the commercial space arena, having founded and run many of the leading entrepreneurial companies in this sector including Zero Gravity Corporation, the Rocket Racing League and Space Adventures.
As co-Founder & Chairman of the Singularity University, a Silicon Valley based institution partnered with NASA, Google, Autodesk and Nokia, Diamandis counsels the world’s top enterprises on how to utilize exponential technologies and incentivized innovation to dramatically accelerate their business objectives.
Dr. Diamandis attended the MIT where he received his degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering, as well as Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. Diamandis’ personal motto is: “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!”
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Salim Ismail
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Salim Ismail is a sought-after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley. He travels extensively addressing various topics including breakthrough technologies and their impact on a variety of industries and society in general.
Salim has spent the last six years building Singularity University as its founding Executive Director and current Global Ambassador. SU is based at NASA Ames and is training a new generation of leaders to manage exponentially growing technologies. Prior to that, as a Vice President at Yahoo, he built and ran Brickhouse, Yahoo's internal incubator.
His last company, Angstro, was sold to Google in August 2010. He has founded or operated seven early-stage companies including PubSub Concepts, which laid some of the foundation for the real-time web. He has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fortune, Wired, Vogue and the BBC.
He advises Fortune 500 executives and many world governments on the future of technology and recently released his first book, Exponential Organizations, which launched live on CNBC's Squawk Box on October 14th 2014.
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Hung Le

The most important book of the 21 century.

Reviewed in Australia on 9 November 2018

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Many authors talk about growing companies fast but this is THE only book that breaks down the essential components of what it truly takes to build an exponential organization. One that tackles the status quo and traditional Industrial Age thinking that is often applied to existing business models, which end up being constrained by the “dinosaur” business model. Thanks so much Salim for condensing your genius insights into a $20 book that contains millions of $ of knowledge.

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Michael Dean

Terrible book with no thesis

Reviewed in Australia on 9 December 2015

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It's impossible to describe this book's thesis in a couple of sentences. It's a mish-mash of random ideas from other people, with no attempt to combine them into a coherent whole. They come up with a few useless buzzwords plus meaningless lists of things you need, like 'dashboards' and 'autonomy', without saying why they're important or how to use them. It's definitely not a handbook for how to build an organisation 10x better than anything existing today, which is what they claim it is. Don't bother.

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A fascinating book I'd unreservedly recommend to anyone interested in the future of the business model and innovation. The author shows how Moores Law applies not just to hardware but any information based activity. Want to know how car wash operators in Buenos Aires have suffered a loss in revenue of 50% in 10 years due to information technology, then read this book. Those interested in New Product Development will also benefit from a whole new view on how it can be conducted and products rapidly implemented.

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Remi G.

An eye opener

Reviewed in Australia on 5 February 2016

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I am in continuous improvement (and adaptation) in a large organisation, and I found this book confirmed was I was feeling, that large organisations are too risk adverse, too slow to adopt accelerating technologies, etc. Their immune system kills innovation. Great read!

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Great read

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Good start for someone who is chasing ideas or want think outside of the box within their corporations.
The start gives you an idea of an EXO and last two chapters provides info on what is to expect of out future.

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micheal j o'brien

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Reviewed in Australia on 26 April 2015

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Combined with Scaling Up a great combination

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MikeH

it tackled here and represents a great opportunity for business and academia to consider how much ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 October 2014

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Essential reading for those wishing to understand how organisations can achieve extraordinary growth and efficiency.

Exponential Organisations provides several examples of real world successes, and converts these success stories into clear steps for others to apply. Productivity growth, a debate going back to the founding of economic thought, is tackled here and represents a great opportunity for business and academia to consider how much potential there is for extraordinary productivity growth based on this 'exponential' method, perhaps this will rewrite the way we think about economics.

When the public sector embraces exponential methods, vastly increasing its services at ever decreasing costs, public debt reduces and fiscal stability has a greater chance than every before. Important to watch the blind side here too, i.e. the reduction of the middle class through rapid implementation of disruptive methods and associated technologies, which could further exasperate growing inequality. Forecasting how things will be in 2020, 2030, ...2050 as we embrace waves of disruption is a real challenge, and this book helps us do that.

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M Crowther

The most inspiring and useful book I've read in the last 12 months

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2015

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Wow... I've just finished reading this book and every page is a revelation, an assault of new and emerging ideas that I suggest most will find interesting and engaging. The book is so packed with information, links to websites, case studies, names of people who've provided evidence or written books of relevance, companies that have applied the thinking, outcomes, etc. that it seems there's no fluff or padding, there just isn't the space.

I found myself making so many highlights (Kindle) it almost became silly, 2 or 3 per page, almost every page. This book is a self contained manifesto, guide, how-to and yet will prove to be a just the launching point for many people. I've come away with a renewed sense of the possible, of what can be achieved. Applying it for example to my own writing under Mark J Diez. I know see a way forward to create a unique experience for current and potential readers using Ismail's idea of 'digitize everything', while applying the 'Community & Crowd' idea of the SCALE model. I've also gained insights into applying the other part, the IDEAS model to enhance how my employer delivers services.

Overall, a great book that was worth buying and like others, I'll definitely be re-reading this book straight away.

Mark.

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Chris Furnell

A fascinating read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 December 2018

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Filled with insightful case studies, this book took me quite some time to read, but I caught myself reading several chapters twice to ensure I swept all value. A must-have in your collection if you’re keen on sustainable transformation and innovation

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I found out the world has been moving faster than I thought

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2019

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Outstanding book for anyone that needs to stay updated whether an entrepreneur or in the corporate "old" world. Very relevant and applicable to multiple situations and organizations. I will keep it handy and maybe read it again.

Jeff Wellstead

Welcome to the new Industrial Revolution!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 March 2015

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An incredible book that does a wonderful job outlining the critical elements now necessary to create a hyper growth business model in this amazing new era of rapid product development, speed to market and disruptive innovation. We're witnessing something akin to the Industrial Revolution that occurred between the latex 1800's and early 1900's, and will change everything we've ever known about the way we work, and how companies operate. A must read!

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