CHAPTER 8

THE BLOCKCHAIN ORGANIZATION

It is hard to overstate how powerful machines and other things could become during and after the enhanced blockchain phase of the spectrum. AI-enabled systems will be able to amass many thousands of lifetimes of business rules and other information and process it in a fraction of a second. On a blockchain, self-executing dapps will process information, draw conclusions, and transact autonomously. In that world, what will it mean for humans to lead, and how will leaders perform that role? What will organizations look like when they are no longer driven from an identifiable center?

For an increasing number of organizations and their leaders, these questions get to the fundamentals of what they want to achieve. ...

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