Exponential Organizations
by Salim Ismail with Michael S. Malone and Yuri van Geest
The Singularity University framework for companies that scale ten times faster: a massive transformative purpose plus SCALE and IDEAS attributes. Enthusiastic and framework-heavy; useful vocabulary, uneven evidence.
Read it if…
you want a vocabulary for platform-era scaling.
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Skip it if…
you distrust acronyms and techno-optimism.
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Three things you will actually use
- Leverage assets you do not own.
- Algorithms and community scale.
- Purpose attracts the crowd.
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Write your organization's massive transformative purpose and test whether it is actually transformative.
Our verdict
Scaling vocabulary.
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