In the AI age, leaders need to go beyond future-proofing
Body of Work: Octopus Organization
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.
Keynote: QuidelOrtho North American Sales Meeting
The forces bearing down on healthcare and diagnostics aren't arriving one at a time — they're converging. In this keynote delivered at the QuidelOrtho North American Sales Meeting, business futurist Jonathan Brill connects the dots between geopolitical instability,...
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...
Jonathan Brill on the Bringing Data & AI to Life Podcast
The AI Investment Strategies You Need to Know: Eye-Opening Insights from Jonathan Brill Placing bets is always a risky game, and yet, everyone’s looking to do it with AI. So, how can you make the best possible bet? In the latest episode of Informatica's podcast...
AWS: Beyond the technology: Workforce changes for AI
An excerpt from the AWS blog post by Taimur Rashid highlighting Jonathan Brill's whitepaper The AI-First Enterprise: The New Rules of Jobs and Organizational Design. Workplaces are increasingly integrating AI tools into daily operations, with AI assistants supporting...
Jonathan Brill on the Thinkroom Podcast
The management system running most organizations today was designed for railroads in the 1850s—and AI just made it obsolete. In this revealing conversation with Johan Grönstedt on the Thinkroom Podcast, Jonathan Brill explains why the assumptions baked into our org...