Welcome to the most transformative period in human history! We live today in a world of exponential technologies and accelerating breakthroughs, all of which present boundless opportunity. Accessing that opportunity, however, requires organizational evolution. No enterprise will be able to stay alive—much less thrive—without adapting to the exponential rate of change that accelerating technologies deliver.

This book serves as a roadmap in leading your organization through that transformation process.

In keeping with Moore's Law—which predicted that the processing power of computers would double every two years on average—the performance of anything powered by information technologies is also doubling every two years. Anything digitized realizes the same increasingly rapid, or exponential, growth rate seen in computing.

As exponential technologies converge and build upon one another—giving rise to the Fourth Industrial Revolution—they are bringing abundance to every industry and, simultaneously, disrupting them all in one way or another. While traditional business models work just fine in a scarcity-based environment, they are not designed to operate in the fast-approaching world of abundance.

Thousands of hours of real-life implementation of Exponential Organization (ExO) principles have gone into bringing you this new work. The first book to address ExO principles—Salim Ismail's Exponential Organizations—explained why the time was ripe for such organizations and described in detail what makes them tick. Since then, we have established a process for how enterprises of all kinds can use ExO principles to succeed in this new world.

The ExO Sprint is a tested and proven 10-week process that allows any organization to implement the ExO model to address industry disruption and overcome internal resistance to change.

This book will outline the step-by-step process required to run an ExO Sprint and, ultimately, to become an Exponential Organization—to achieve company-wide transformation in terms of mindset, behavior, and culture.

Whether you are an entrepreneur or an intrapreneur, a leader of a large enterprise or a small one, or simply a champion for change, this playbook will help you run an ExO Sprint that is adapted to your goals. You will gain a new understanding of the world around you and be equipped with the processes, tools, and techniques required for your organization to keep pace.

You will also discover that you (as well as those you enlist to accompany you on this journey) will achieve personal and professional transformation. Organizational transformation, in fact, is primarily a matter of personal transformation. Herein lies the secret.

The transformation achieved in running an ExO Sprint will enable you to create an exponential impact that will accelerate your business and change the world for the better.

Welcome to your very own Exponential Transformation.

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