Don’t eliminate managers, redesign them. Rebuild management roles around judgment, adaptability, and orchestrating human-AI systems.
Body of Work: AI and the Octopus Organization
Jonathan Brill Featured on Radio Mitre
This is a translated excerpt of the original Spanish article on Radio Mitre. Jonathan Brill, artificial intelligence expert: “Five AI-driven trends are going to collide in the world” The futurist argues that five AI-driven trends will require companies and states to...
El Mundo Interviews Jonathan Brill
This is a translated excerpt of the original Spanish article in El Mundo, written by Daniel Arjona. Jonathan Brill, futurist: "In the next five years, five AI-driven trends will collide in the world." The American futurist and author of 'AI and the Octopus...
AI on Your Org Chart: Why Decision Systems Replace Hierarchies
Why Decision Systems Replace Hierarchies
Why Hierarchies Fail in the AI Era: The Rise of AI-Native Organizations
Learn what an AI-native organization is and how leaders must redesign decision-making for speed, adaptability, and competitive advantage.
SMM | The Octopus Model: Rethinking How Sales and Marketing Organizations Make Decisions
The octopus has several innate features that are worth sales and marketing teams’ noting and duplicating. That’s where the Octopus Model comes in.
Canal CEO | The unexpected lesson of an octopus
This is an English translation of the Canal CEO article "La lección inesperada de un pulpo" by Elena Carrascosa Vela, in which she reviews the book AI and the Octopus Organization: Building the Superintelligent Firm by Jonathan Brill and Steve Wunker. Artificial...
Dialogue | How to build an octopus
In the AI age, leaders need to go beyond future-proofing
Leader to Leader | Becoming an Octopus Organization: A New Model for Leadership in the AI Age
The great leadership challenge of the AI era isn’t how to integrate a new form of technology. It’s how to reimagine the very nature of leadership itself.
TalentCulture | How Accelerating AI Adoption Means Turning from Org Charts to Octopuses
The traditional organizational chart is dying. In its place, a new structure is emerging, one that’s inspired by an unlikely creature: the octopus.
ORH | Reimagining Work and Roles for AI-Driven Innovation
Faced with disruption of meteoric proportions, companies that adopt a distributed decision-making model will be better equipped to ride the waves of change and unleash innovation at all levels.
Brainz Magazine | 9 Essential Business Books for Leaders and Entrepreneurs
AI and the Octopus Organization: Building the Superintelligent Firm by Jonathan Brill and Steve Wunker was included as #4 on Brainz Magazine's list of 9 Essential Business Books for Leaders and Entrepreneurs. Here is what they had to say: AI and the Octopus...