Salim Ismail Quotes

How quickly can you convert exponential growth into the critical mass needed to become a platform? Once that happens there is no practical limit. It's one big coral reef.

Large numbers of bottom-up ideas, properly filtered, always trump top-down thinking, no matter the industry or organization.

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

As Eric Ries explains, "The modern rule of competition is whoever learns fastest, wins."

History and common sense make clear that you cannot radically transform every part of an organization — and accelerate the underlying clock of that enterprise to hyper-speed — without fundamentally changing the nature of that organization.

marketing have been commoditized and democratized, it is all about ideas and ideals.

In 2011, Insurance giant Allstate, with forty of the best actuaries and data scientists money could buy, wanted to see if its claims algorithm could be improved upon, so it ran a contest on Kaggle.

Innovation now comes from time-rich individuals not capital-rich institutions.

Una de las claves del mundo exponencial es que cualquier visión que tengas a día de hoy va a convertirse rápidamente en obsoleta y así tienes que continuar mejorando tu conocimiento sobre las tecnologías y sobre las capacidades organizativas.

100 percent of new job creation has come via startups and entrepreneurs.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

According to noted hotelier Chip Conley, "Culture is what happens when the boss leaves."

Rather than using armies of people or large physical plants, Exponential Organizations are built upon information technologies that take what was once physical in nature and dematerialize it into the digital, on-demand world.

So, of the three major risk areas, execution risk remains the only real issue in building a company. How will the enterprise organize itself to maximize performance from its founders and management team? How will it leverage technology and information to create a unique and sustainable advantage and business model? Answering these questions correctly is the key to building a successful Exponential Organization. For this reason, we need to look more closely at each of the steps in building a powerful and effective team.

We've learned how to scale technology; now it's time to scale the organization.