The Success Imperative
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Gain insights into the secrets that enabled Fortune100 Exponential Organizations to significantly outperform their peers.
Organizations implementing the ExO Success formula have delivered
over 40x higher shareholder returns 6.8x higher profitability 2.6x better revenue growth 11.7x better asset turnover
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Fortune 100 Report
Gain insights into the secrets that enabled these Fortune100 Exponential Organizations to significantly outperform their peers.
Organizations implementing the ExO Success formula have delivered:
- 6.8x higher profitability
- 2.6x better revenue growth
- 11.7x better asset turnover
- Over 40x higher shareholder returns
Key insights from the Report
Fortunes Churn
The 8-year assessment period between 2014 -2021 witnessed a 23% churn rate amongst the Fortune100 organizations. The organizations that witnessed a significant drop in their ranks or fell out of the Fortune100 list were the non-exponentials.
Exponentials Thrive
Exponential Organizations were 1.8x and 2.2x more progressive than their bottom10 peers in building capabilities of flexibility and adaptability to succeed in the 4th Industrial Revolution era.
Immunity Not Guaranteed
Some industry icons and the top10 Exponential Organizations have not been able to sustain their superiority with respect to the different exponential attributes. Hence, they failed to deliver good business results.
Elephants can Dance
While realizing that shifting gears from being a linear to an exponential organization is not without hardships, some of the Fortune100 organizations stepped up. They started embracing exponential thinking and doing and reaped the benefits thereof.
The report concludes with five critical strategic choices and ten key aligned actions the top10 Exponential Organizations made and executed to emerge as winners.
These are essential lessons that any organization should heed to improve its business performance, especially in the ongoing disruptive and hyper-competitive era.
Background on the Report
Unlock 10x Growth & Impact with Exponential Organizations 2.0
The onset of the 21st century has witnessed not only accelerated change and disruption but also the emergence of a new breed of organizations, revolutionizing performance and growing significantly better than their peers.
This version written by Silicon Valley legends Salim Ismail, Peter H. Diamandis, and Michael S. Malone together with more than 80 global OpenExO community members contains all new content from experiences gained in the 8 years since first publishing Exponential Organizations by advising some of the world’s most disruptive companies, research results, and never before revealed insights.
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- Higher shareholder returns
- Higher profitablity
- Better revenue growth
- Better asset turnover
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