The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations: Ori Brafman,Rod A. Beckstrom: 9781591841432: Amazon.com. About the Book - The Starfish and the Spider. From The Starfish and the Spider Book Summary One thing that business, institutions, governments and key individuals will have to realize is spiders and starfish may look alike, but starfish have a miraculous quality to them.
Cut off the leg of a spider, and you have a seven-legged creature on your hands; cut off its head and you have a dead spider. But cut off the arm of a starfish and it will grow a new one. Not only that, but the severed arm can grow an entirely new body. But starfish don't just exist in the animal kingdom. Starfish organizations, on the other hand, are based on completely different principles. So in today's world starfish are starting to gain the upper hand. How can Toyota leverage starfish principles to crush their spider-like rivals, GM and Ford? Rod Beckstrom of The Starfish And The Spider. [The Starfish and the Spider] Rod Beckstrom - The Starfish and the Spider.
Starfish Serie 1.1. Starfish and the Spider Review Part One. StarFish Model. Starfish Concept Document. Executive Summary The world, as you know it, will not exist in 10 years.
The top 10 jobs of 2020 do not even exist today. By 2010, it is estimated that technical knowledge will be doubling every 72 hours. Everything is changing; people, information, technology, communications, economies, and even the global climate. The world is shrinking, challenges and opportunities are growing, and change is accelerating. A global shift is occurring in communications, information sharing, and social networking. The Starfish Community Concept Document has been written to share a little about this global shift and what it could mean to the hundreds of millions of people that live in abject poverty and need. This document sets the stage by introducing our world of accelerating change.
In order to work together more effectively, we must understand how emerging social systems have increased our ability to interact. The Starfish and the Spider: 8 Principles of Decentralization. “The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations” by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom is still one of my favorite books on organizational theory and complex systems.
The starfish represents decentralized “organizations” while the spider describes hierarchical command-and-control structures. In reviewing the book, the Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum wrote that “[it has] not only stimulated my thinking, but as a result of the reading, I proposed ten action points for my own organization.” The Starfish and the Spider is about “what happens when there’s no one in charge.
It’s about what happens when there’s no hierarchy. You’d think there would be disorder, even chaos. 1. Not only did the Apaches survive the Spanish attacks, but amazingly, the attacks served to make them even stronger. 2. When we first encounter a collection of file-swapping teenagers, or a native tribe in the Arizona desert, their power is easy to overlook. 3. 4. Decentralized 'starfish' organizations are more resilient - WILDFIRE article. Heart of Devotion. Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana MaharajaTHE SWING CEREMONY Rupa-Sanatana Gaudiya Matha [This year Jhulan-yatra begins on August 20th.
Every year there is a five day festival all over Vrndavana called Jhulana-yatra, at which time the vijaya-vigraha (small) Deities of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna are swung by hundreds of thousands of Vrajabasis and others, in their various temples or homes, on a beautiful swing attached to long ropes. Srila Narayana Maharaja yearly leads this festival at Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Matha and Sri Rupa Sanatana Gaudiya Matha, at which time he gives a short talk about the significance of this festival. The following is a translation of both his Hindi talks, given on August 8, 2003:] In the month of Sravana (the rainy season), the clouds in the sky begin to make a thundering sound and extremely fine mist-like rain drizzles everywhere. The peacocks and peahens all call out “Keka keka.” Raffael Kemenczy on How the Starfish outlives the Spider. Tuesday 3rd May @7pm. Ellen Dudley This Tuesday at 7pm Raffael Kemenczy will give a short talk on his great project StarFish.
When a Spider loses one of its legs, it is crippled, chop off its head, and it dies. Cut a Starfish in half or sever one of its legs and it will not only fully regenerate, but the severed part will grow another Starfish. This analogy was coined by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom in their book The Starfish and the Spider. Society today is facing many challenges – fearing political disorder, social upheaval, economic crisis and environmental disaster. Is it worth it sacrificing individual sovereignty in exchange for a cosy and unconcerned lifestyle?
Raffael Kéménczy is a student, social visionary and start-up entrepreneur living in Vienna. He is Relations co-Director at the European Organisation for Sustainability.