Resumo de The Starfish And The Spider: The Unstoppable Power Of Leaderless Organizations

If you cut off a spider?shead, it dies; if you cut off a starfish?s leg it grows a new one, and that legcan grow into an entirely new starfish Traditional top-down organizations arelike spiders, but now starfish organizations are changing the face of businessand the world. The Starfish and the Spider argues that organizations fall intotwo categories: traditional ?spiders,? which have a rigid hierarchy andtop-down leadership, and revolutionary ?starfish,? which rely on the power ofpeer relationships. The Starfish and the Spiderexplores what happens when starfish take on spiders (such as the music industryvs. Napster, Kazaa, and the P2P services that followed). And it will teach you:? How the Apaches evaded the powerful Spanish army for 200 years ? The power ofa simple circle ? The importance of catalysts who have an uncanny ability tobring people together. The authorsalso analyze one of today's most worrisome "starfish"organizations?al-Qaeda?though that group undermines the authors' point that thepower of leaderless groups helps to demonstrate the essential goodness andtrustworthiness of human beingsThe Starfish and the Spider is greatreading. Starfish are changing the face of business and society. TheStarfish and the Spider provides a powerful prism for understanding thepatterns and potential of self-organizing systemsA must-read. Starfish arechanging the face of business and society. This page-turner is provocative andcompellingA fantastic read. Constantly weaving stories and connections. You'llnever see the world the same way againTheStarfish and the Spider, like Blink, The Tipping Point, and TheWisdom of Crowds before it, showed me a provocative new way to look at theworld and at business. It's also fun to readBrafman and Beckstrom, apair of Stanford M.B.A.s who have applied their business know-how to promotingpeace and economic development through decentralized networking, offer a breezyand entertaining look at how decentralization is changing many organizations. Thetitle metaphor conveys the core concept: though a starfish and a spider havesimilar shapes, their internal structure is dramatically different?adecapitated spider inevitably dies, while a starfish can regenerate itself froma single amputated leg. In the same way, decentralized organizations, like theInternet, the Apache Indian tribe and Alcoholics Anonymous, are made up of manysmaller units capable of operating, growing and multiplying independently ofeach other, making it very difficult for a rival force to control or defeatthem.After theevents of 9/11, we co-founded Global Peace Networks, a non-profitSmall circles of CEOsworked in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa. The group loved thepresentation and asked for more.

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