The Octopus Organization, by Jana & Phil

Large-scale organizational transformations usually don’t work. What originally starts as a way of improving an organization becomes an all-consuming distraction, a value-destroying set of activities that, even as it becomes clear they will fail, must be completed at any cost.

But there is a better way: becoming an Octopus Organization. The octopus is everything you need your organization to be in these turbulent times: extremely smart, endlessly adaptable, and highly resilient. Its eight arms work beautifully in concert, but crucially, each arm can think for itself if it needs to work independently. Your organization can work as intelligently and as beautifully as these amazing creatures, if you change your operating model.

Drawing from their extensive experience guiding hundreds of global enterprises through digital transformation, Amazon Web Services (AWS) executives, Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner, introduce a groundbreaking approach to organizational change.