The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations Audiobook (Free)

If you take off a spider’s knee, it’s crippled; if you cut off its mind, it dies. But if you take off a starfish’s leg, it grows a new one, as well as the aged leg can grow into an entirely new starfish.

What’s the concealed power behind the achievement of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric powered have in common with the abolitionist and women’s privileges movements? What fundamental choice put General Motors and Toyota on vastly different pathways? How could winning a Supreme Court case end up being about The Starfish as well as the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Agencies the largest mistake MGM could have made?

After five many years of ground-breaking research, Ori Brafman and Pole Beckstrom share some unexpected answers, gripping stories, and a tapestry of unlikely connections. The Starfish as well as the Spider argues that organizations fall into two categories: traditional ‘spiders’, which have a rigid hierarchy and top-down command, and innovative ‘starfish’, which depend on the energy of peer romantic relationships.

The Starfish and the Spider explores what goes on when starfish undertake spiders (such as the music industry vs. Napster, Kazaa, as well as the P2P providers that implemented). It reveals how set up companies and institutions, from IBM to Intuit to the U.S. federal government, will also be learning how to incorporate starfish principles to have success. This audiobook explores:

The way the Apaches fended off the powerful Spanish military for 200 years

The energy of a simple circle

The importance of catalysts who have an uncanny ability to provide people together

The way the Internet has become a breeding surface for leaderless agencies

How Alcoholics Anonymous has already reached untold millions with just a shared ideology and with out a leader

The Starfish as well as the Spider is that rare book which will change how you understand the world around you.