don't try to wedge the emerging business back into the mother ship. - Salim Ismail

An Exponential Organization is one whose impact (or output) is disproportionally large — at least 10x larger — compared to its peers because of the use of new organizational techniques that leverage accelerating technologies.

matrix structures is that, over time, power accrues to the horizontals. Often, HR or legal have no incentive to say yes, so their default answer becomes no (which is why HR is often referred to as "inhuman resources"). It's not that HR people are bad people. But, over time, their incentives end up at cross-purposes with those of product managers.

McKinsey & Company advised AT&T not to enter the mobile telephone business, predicting there would be fewer than one million cellular phones in use by 2000. In fact, by 2000, there were one hundred million mobile phones.