The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations is a 🏷️#book by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom exploring of the rise and power of decentralized organizations.
The book gives historical examples of decentralized organizations such as Alcoholics Anonymous and the Apaches—analyzing their nature in contrast to centralized organizations. It considers the conflicts between centralized and decentralized organizations, including the "If you can't beat them, join them" solution of creating hybrid organizations such as Citizendium.
The analogy of the spider and starfish refers to the contrasting biological nature of those organisms; while starfish have a decentralized neural structure permitting regeneration.
The Starfish and the Spider was first recommended to me by 📝Justin Lane, PhD.