The Octopus Organization: A Guide to Thriving in a World of Continuous

by Phil Le-Brun

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Drive lasting change with a new, nimbler organisation focused on continuous change. Our organisations are stuck. We talk about agility but find ourselves bogged down in bureaucracy. We aspire to innovate but run into systems built to prevent mistakes, not spark breakthroughs. We need to learn and adapt, but we're operating with an outdated playbook built for efficiency and control. And our attempts to fix all this by pouring trillions into huge, top-down transformations make the problems worse. One of nature's most intelligent and curious creatures, the octopus is everything your organisation needs to be: smart, endlessly adaptable, and highly resilient. Its eight tentacles work in concert, but each can also think for itself. This book shows how to achieve the same balance of cohesion and autonomy and to guide your organisation toward a living, breathing system-one that learns, adapts, and thrives by tapping into the distributed intelligence of its people.le. One of nature's most intelligent and curious creatures, the octopus is everything your organization needs to be: smart, endlessly adaptable, and highly resilient. Its eight tentacles work in concert, but each can also think for itself. This book shows how to achieve the same balance of cohesion and autonomy and to guide your organization toward a living, breathing system one that learns, adapts, and thrives by tapping into the distributed intelligence of its people. Drawing on their experience at companies such as Amazon

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9798892791403
• Condition: Fine

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