[MathematicalArt]

The “shape-shifting” organization. At the moment, organizational dynamics are largely created and maintained by gut feeling, rules of thumb, and inertia. There will be a shift towards flexible organizations that can purposefully change form in response to needs internal and external.

Consider one common pattern. Startup CEO grows successful startup, then the board inevitably replaces said CEO with a more traditional CEO and organization structure. What made the company innovative then slowly goes away as it becomes entrenched in the same paradigm as the established companies the startup had been disrupting. Rinse and repeat.

Why must this evolution be so one-way and so rigidly predictable? Eventually, organizations will be able to flexibly shift to nearly any reasonable state, identifying which resources are needed to initiate such a change as well as when and where to apply them.