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Exponential Organisations and Leadership Wisdom!

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Never in human history have we seen so many technologies coming together at such a rapid pace. "Moore's Law" has seen the doubling of price/performance in computing continue uninterrupted for half a century. But the same is true of information. Once any domain, discipline, technology, or industry becomes information-enabled, its price/performance begins doubling every year or two. Ray Kurzweil, co-founder of  Singularity University , calls this the Law of Accelerating Returns (LOAR). We are entering the age of the exponential organisation driven by a new breed of newly democratised, exponential technologies. But who will lead these organisations, and will they do so with wisdom? According to Salim Ismail and co-authors of the book, Exponential Organizations ,   we are facing four historically un ique levels of convergence: The continuous acceleration of specific computation technologies occurring in areas such as In...