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How to transform your company into an Exponential Organization (ExO)

Notes from Yuri Van Geest’s speech ”Exponentiele Organisaties”

Disclaimer: this notes are a collection of personal thoughts, data points and quotes from experts. All info is publicly available. The content hereby written does not reflect in anyway the position of the company I work for.

Dear reader,

A few years back I had the pleasure to attend an extremely interesting, passionate and visionary speech by Yuri Van Geest, author of Exponential Organizations (ExOs). At that time, Yuri worked at the University of Singularity in The Netherlands, studying the “Tsunami” provided by the new technologies. In 2017, he has been recognized by Thinkers 50 as one of the top 50 best emerging management book authors in the world. I am happy to share with you some of the key learnings from his speech, complemented by some personal considerations and notes. Although the following notes are a bit dated, these topics are still valid in 2018.

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