If you cut off a spider’s calf, it’s crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But in the event that you cut off a starfish’s leg, it grows a new one, and the previous calf can develop into a completely new starfish.

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After five many years of ground-breaking research, Ori Brafman and Fishing rod Beckstrom share some unexpected answers, gripping stories, and a tapestry of unlikely connections. The Starfish as well as the Spider argues that institutions fall into two categories: traditional ‘spiders’, that have a rigid hierarchy and top-down command, and groundbreaking ‘starfish’, which depend on the power of peer interactions.

The Starfish as well as the Spider explores what happens when starfish take on spiders (such as the music industry vs. Napster, Kazaa, and the P2P services that followed). It reveals how set up companies and establishments, from IBM to Intuit towards the U.S. federal government, are also learning how exactly to incorporate starfish principles to have success. This audiobook explores:

How the Apaches fended off the powerful Spanish army for 200 years

The energy of a straightforward circle

The need for catalysts who’ve an uncanny ability to bring people together

The way the Internet has turned into a breeding surface for leaderless businesses

How Alcoholics Anonymous has reached untold millions with only a shared ideology and without a leader

The Starfish as well as the Spider is that rare book that will change how you understand the world around you.