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Spider followers need an extra push

A spider organization, first coined by Ori Brafman in The Spider and the Starfish, is an organization where a tiny group holds authority over the entire organization’s power and decision-making. The test of the spider organization is, if your top leaders were to disappear (the head), what would happen to the rest (the body)? A “spider follower” is someone who has spent enough of their lives in spider organizations that their behavior has been shaped by the system.…