Why Decision Systems Replace Hierarchies
Body of Work: AI and the Octopus Organization
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...
CIO | The Octopus Playbook: What nature’s smartest cephalopod can teach leaders about AI
Stop obsessing over AI tools. The real win is reshaping your org so humans and machines decide faster together — like an octopus, not a rigid shell.
LeadershipNOW | Lessons from the Octopus About Leading AI Transformation
The most successful leaders don’t treat AI as just another technology implementation. Instead, they recognize it as a catalyst for fundamental organizational redesign.
Jonathan Brill on the Profiles in Leadership Podcast
Jonathan Brill, Octopus Organizations Built for Speed, Resilience and Radical Adaptability In a recent episode of Profiles in Leadership, host Dr. Steve Anderson sits down with Jonathan Brill to explore how organizations must evolve to thrive in an AI-driven world. In...