Exponential Organizations 2.0: The New Playbook for 10x Growth and Impact

The lesson is: If you’re not going to constantly reinvent yourself, then someone is going to disrupt you.”

“Your MTP will be the filter through which you see opportunities in the world and will serve as your North Star in a world of ever-increasing abundance, distractions, and demands on your time.”

An ExO is a purpose-driven, agile, and scalable organization that uses accelerating technologies to digitize, dematerialize, democratize, and demonetize its products and services, resulting in a 10x performance increase over its non-ExO peers.

“longevity escape velocity”: the point at which science extends life for more than a year for every year that a human is alive.

Noted biologist E.O. Wilson summarizes it best: “We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.”5

This library builds on the following critical books: The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler Exponential Organizations by Salim Ismail, Yuri van Geest, and Michael S. Malone (with Peter Diamandis)

An Exponential Organization (ExO) 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.

Ray Kurzweil calls this the Law of Accelerating Returns (LOAR), which posits that any technology that is information-based will see doubling patterns.

A hundred years ago, the average lifespan of an S&P 500 company was 67 years. Today, it’s about 15 years.3