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Exponential Organizations

By: Salim Ismail,Yuri van Geest,Michael S. Malone,Peter H. Diamandis - foreword and afterword
Narrated by: Kevin Young
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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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©2014 Salim Ismail (P)2015 Audible Inc.

Critic reviews

"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)
" 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)

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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)

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Disappointment. I gave up after one chapter. Shame, Ismail deserves better!

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Dated

Things have moved on since 2015, I hoped this book might hold some relevance in the 2020s

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Some interesting ideas, a lot of hyperbole

Inspiring, but felt a bit unsubstantiated, jumped around too much to get deeper insight. Didn't make it all the way through. But a really useful premise and observation about commonalities among these companies are intriguing.

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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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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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Ahead of its time

It’s 2023 and I’m listening to this now 9 years later and these authors were incredibly accurate. Wow! Thank you so much for writing this book!

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need the second version 😫

this is from 2015, need the one published in 2023 in audible please. can you please bring the latest one ASAP

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Great read! Makes you think long term in a different way

Highly recommend this for any business leader, disruption is inevitable but with the right mindset and good use of any companies can actually benefit from it than suffer from it

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The best book I read on exponential thinking !

Love it! Listening second time now, great book ever written by Salim. Must read if you want to survive in this and next decade of exponential thinking and growth !!

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existential Exponential growth

Clear and easy to follow. I enjoyed that is full of examples so it helps understanding the concepts

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