Exponential organizations
SCALE attributes
IDEAS attributes
Non-traditional entry modes
Netiquette
100

This company's MTP targets not only the transportation of individuals but also allows the company to explore multiple business models.

What is Uber?
100

Groups that continuously use a company’s product vs occasional users.

What are Community and Crowd?

100

Tools that show real-time data instead of past performance reports.

What are Dashboards?

100

A “listening post” in a tech hub to absorb knowledge and trends.

What is an Innovation Outpost?

100

If you're a moderator/administrator of an online community and someone writes something you don't like so you block them, you are breaking this rule.

What is “don't abuse your power”?

200

The core, defining purpose of an organization that reflects its highest aspiration.

What is a Massive Transformative Purpose?

200

Hiring external, continuously updated talent instead of full-time employees.

What is Staff on Demand?

200

Processes that match and filter data to transform it into useful information.

What are Interfaces?

200

Entering a market to source funding instead of selling products.

What is Capital Access?

200

You're on Facebook Marketplace, trying to sell something, you have entered the price and all the details of the product you're selling, however the person asks you for all that information again, they are breaking this rule of netiquette.

What is “Read First then Ask”?

300

Staff on Demand can be used to grow exponentially but also to avoid this thing that happens when you hire people for your company

What is obsolescence of skills / bias on company's policy?

300

Techniques like gamification and incentive prizes used to keep users involved.

What is Engagement?

300

Technologies that optimize peer-to-peer collaboration.

What are Social Technologies?

300

This entry mode requires high local participation like drivers or hosts.

What is a Managed Ecosystem?

300

Actively stopping yourself from participating, commenting, reacting on conflicts and creating "Ladies" and "Lords"

What is “Keep the flame Wars Under Control”?

400

Before defining an MTP, organizations must answer questions like “Why do we exist?” and this other key question.

What is “Who are we serving?”


400

The practice of renting or sharing assets instead of owning them.

What are Leveraged and Shared Assets?

400

Self-organized teams with decentralized authority working toward OKRs.

What is Autonomy?

400

Coordinating a network of buyers and sellers without owning assets.

What is a Managed Ecosystem?

400

You would be not following this rule if you start sharing your friend's cell phone number over the internet.

What is “respect your privacy and the privacy of others”?

500

MTPs are declarative statements that are not: “We are going to try”, instead, it is this alternative.

What is “we will do this”?

500

A step-by-step set of instructions used to automate tasks.

What is an Algorithm?

500

The process through which ExOs make data-driven decisions and learn.

What is Experimentation?

500

Using digital channels to reach customers without physical infrastructure.

What is Virtual Presence?

500

This rule is not necessarily valid in today's reality, due to AI bots knowing to write in perfect english or spanish.

What is “pay attention to grammar and punctuation”?


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