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Life changing book!
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Publisher's Summary
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 10 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 10 characteristics of Exponential Organizations. Here, in Exponential Organizations, they walk the listener through how any company, from a startup to a multinational, can become an ExO, streamline its performance, and grow to the next level.
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- Kraken
- 07-18-15
Schlock, Read Weirdly
Would you try another book from the authors and/or Kevin Young?
I read a decent number of business books. This one seems second hand. It's like the authors read some business books, and then wrote a business book about the business books they read. It's filled with buzzwords and surface-level understanding. I believe the themes are actually right and true, there was just a big lack of depth.
Would you be willing to try another one of Kevin Young’s performances?
This performer has a very strange cadence and style of pronunciation. Quite off-putting. It definitely adds to the feeling of the book being full of poop.
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- A. Yoshida
- 01-24-16
Not a revelation
The key points from the book are SCALE and IDEAS:
S: staff on demand
C: community & crowd
A: algorithms
L: leveraged assets
E: engagement
I: interfaces
D: dashboards
E: experimentation
A: autonomy
S: social technologies
The book went through most of the elements superficially by referring to some well known examples, such as Netflix's contest for a better recommendation algorithm. While the grand prize money was substantial ($1,000,000), the winner was able to beat Netflix's algorithm by over 10%. There were over 20,000 teams working on this problem. If Netflix spent the money internally trying to improve its algorithm, it probably would not have gotten such impressive results.
If you follow the news on technology, much of the information in the book is not a revelation.
28 of 32 people found this review helpful
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- MouthpieceMedia
- 06-11-15
Good info, but long and drawn out, awful narrator
There's a lot of good info, but narrator sounds like a GPS robot after having a stroke. He actually had a pleasant voice, but his he's constantly pausing in awkward, unnecessary places. Distracting to the point that I stopped listening.
As far as content, there are some great examples and salient points, but Bold by Peter Diamandis is a better xo primer.
15 of 17 people found this review helpful
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- Just_a_guy
- 07-13-15
Very insightful listen.
If you're a business owner or thinking about business this book is for you. This will open your eyes to the rapidly shifting world
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- urvois
- 07-10-15
eyes opening
this is for me an eyes opening, it make me realize the speed of things to come.
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- Nigel
- 06-24-15
Extraordinary insights
This book delivers a sweeping collection of extraordinary insights into phenomena underpinning major disruptive influences in the world of business. The diversity and magnitude of these influences will have you reaching for the whiteboard pen in an attempt both to make sense of it all and then to strategise the opportunities you spot. And then putting it down again until you can get your head around the implications of it all. I've just finished my first run through and know that I'm going to read it again right away. My only criticism would be that it would be great to have a one hour version for the second time around :-)
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- Jason
- 07-13-15
Inspiring & Informative
This is an excellent book. It is a how-to for entrepreneurs wanting to utilize exponential technologies to start or grow businesses that can truly change the world... So, read/listen to the book, come up with a business idea and follow the guidelines laid-out in the book... Then, you just need to "get busy"!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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- rc
- 07-08-15
Reality Check
Provides iinsight into what each of us needs to be aware of and consider as we take future actions.. A reality check.
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- -Drew
- 05-16-15
Thoughtful and Needed
Great book. There's a lot of deep content here, and the authors packaged it well.
My only criticism comes near the very end, where they discuss the future of HR using genomics, chemical sensors, etc. to fit individuals to jobs "objectively". Employees would then monitor their personalities and social credit in order to optimize for job placement.
Two points :
1. the act of building such a system sounds downright dystopian when taken to its end.
2. choosing to create such a world is itself a value judgement on the type of world that SHOULD exist, and as such, is inherently subjective. Abdication of personal responsibility to "market trends" is not an excuse. What is not mentioned here is the need for governments everywhere to sometimes control exponential trends for the good of the markets and employees that make them up.
Criticism aside, this is an excellent book and well worth the read for business leaders and laymen alike.
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- Wardawg
- 05-12-15
Tons of good information.
Lots of useful information for using data driven growth and decisions. Highly recommended for any business touched by digitized products or services.
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- Mr
- 08-20-15
Great content, dreadful narration
Would you try another book written by the authors or narrated by Kevin Young?
Salim Ismail is a genius. The narration, however, is awful. It ruins what should be an incredibly interesting read. It sounds like it's being read by a robot. Not suitable for a UK audience (or anyone with hearing)
Would you be willing to try another one of Kevin Young’s performances?
No.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointment. I gave up after one chapter. Shame, Ismail deserves better!
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- Ben
- 04-18-17
A fantastic guide to company planning of the future
Well structured and straight forward way to think about company success in the 21st century!
Even though it's a few years old the lessons still hold true and can be applied across a range of industries.
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- Pavlos Moros
- 07-30-19
Seminal for C suite member but beware of fallacious economics near the end
Transformative book, I felt ashamed and behind reading this is in 2019 as CEO but all predictions actualise by the day and the book does a good job painting it clear as day. Vouching for Rifkin’s follies at the end was a spit in the mouth to the economically literate audience of this book though. Another thing, you will need the physical book to take away the important findings and checklists.
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- DC
- 08-28-18
Very Interesting
Found this very interesting and useful in my career. Great insights and the recording was good.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-15-18
Narrator is dreadful
He speaks soooo slow it is anoying. Need to listen to the book at 1.5x and then the voice is not natural.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-21-18
amazing book with great examples based on research
great research very diverse. details of real case studies and success stories. will definitely be rereading it.
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- Raz Chorev
- 10-19-16
Wonderful but scary
This book is the Good To Great (Jim Collins) of our current times. Although the book was published in 2014, and written before, many people who should know about these trends and types of organisations, still don't.
The more you get into the book, you could go either way - either scared of the future, or excited by it.
Regardless, the future is here, and you'd better do something about it, if you want to buy your ticket on this bus.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-15-19
Almost spot on but definitely worth the read<br />
Almost spot on but definitely worth the read. Not right in all predictions but a reader already in tune or at the beginning of the Exo path will find this very comforting. Putting words to my thoughts and plans was the big win
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- Jason
- 06-06-17
good
long book but good. thats all i want to say but wont submit with less than 15 words! !
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