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| Title | : | The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations |
| Author | : | Ori Brafman |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 240 pages |
| Published | : | October 5th 2006 by Portfolio (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Business. Leadership. Nonfiction. Management. Politics |
Ori Brafman
Hardcover | Pages: 240 pages Rating: 3.87 | 4619 Users | 401 Reviews
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If you cut off a spider’s leg, it’s crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish’s leg it grows a new one, and the old leg can grow into an entirely new starfish.What’s the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, Craigslist, and Skype? What do eBay and General Electric have in common with the abolitionist and women’s rights movements? What fundamental choice put General Motors and Toyota on vastly different paths? How could winning a Supreme Court case be the biggest mistake MGM could have made?
After five years of ground-breaking research, Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom share some unexpected answers, gripping stories, and a tapestry of unlikely connections. The Starfish and the Spider argues that organizations fall into two categories: traditional “spiders,” which have a rigid hierarchy and top-down leadership, and revolutionary “starfish,” which rely on the power of peer relationships.
The Starfish and the Spider explores what happens when starfish take on spiders (such as the music industry vs. Napster, Kazaa, and the P2P services that followed). It reveals how established companies and institutions, from IBM to Intuit to the US government, are also learning how to incorporate starfish principles to achieve success. The book explores:
* How the Apaches fended off the powerful Spanish army for 200 years
* The power of a simple circle
* The importance of catalysts who have an uncanny ability to bring people together
* How the Internet has become a breeding ground for leaderless organizations
* How Alcoholics Anonymous has reached untold millions with only a shared ideology and without a leader
The Starfish and the Spider is the rare book that will change how you understand the world around you.
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| Original Title: | The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations |
| ISBN: | 1591841437 (ISBN13: 9781591841432) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 4619 Users | 401 ReviewsWrite Up Epithetical Books The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
This is a great business leadership book that has principles that can be applied to any organization. Brafman compares and contrasts centralized business models (spiders) with decentralized ones (starfish) with an obvious preference for and focus on the latter. He shows how you can spot decentralized organizations, what makes them work, and also what their potential weaknesses are. While the book is not yet that old, many of the examples he uses are already outdated. While the principles areOrganizations that are not centralized are powerful and almost impossible to kill. This is the message of this book. I was hoping it would be more prescriptive, as I could benefit from learning how to adopt principles of a starfish in circumstances at work, with two librarians down in my group. How can we function better so that when someone leaves, or is on leave, we can fill in those gaps more fluidly?The book is really more of a description of leaderless organizations, from the side of the
Great! I wish Brafman had written this, and I could have read it, decades ago.Brafman's thesis is that a centrally controlled organization is slowed by that central control, and can be paralyzed if something interferes with that system, while organizations that share a philosophy and goal, a knowledge base, and a methodology, but are not centrally managed, can't be stopped by a single point of failure. For one example, compare the dismal performance of centrally controlled industries and
Great, great book. You find it under "Management and Leadership" at B&N but I promise that it doesn't read like a text book. Very interesting and a very easy read; explains how and why leaderless organizations (starfish) thrive and how structured, top down organizations (spiders) run into trouble and sometimes fail. Not saying that all structured organizations/companies with a CEO fail but it shows how organizations/institutions like AA, Wikipedia, online music sharing, Craigslist, terrorist
I read this book a while ago, but a recent conversation caused me to revisit it. It's a pretty interesting read, but doesn't, to my mind, provide any major insights. It is true that de-centralized organizations are really hard to topple. The authors make this point again and again, coming back repeatedly to Napster and online file sharing as their prime example.The thing is, that all the successful organizations they profile started with pretty low stakes. How many kids came up with ideas for
Some good concepts in the book, but I think it misses the weakness of Starfish organizations...to use the analogy the author uses, although a Starfish may survive for a long time, it is not dominent in the seas...Sharks still rule the ocean. If your strength is to be a large organization, you can stick to those strengths.
I am happy I finally scratched this one off the list. Starfish and the Spider studies very distributed organizations. What the heck does that mean? Good question. We have been fighting them for decades. Terrorists. They operate in small, loosely networked cells. There really is no "leadership" per se. There are just cells and cells and cells. We wipe one out....there is usually another one the next day. One would say this is job security run rampant for us military types. Others would say these
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