The traditional organizational chart is dying. In its place, a new structure is emerging, one that’s inspired by an unlikely creature: the octopus. An octopus’s anatomy is quite unusual. It has nine brains: one in its head and one in each arm. The eight arms use their individual brains to work in coordinated independence, each sensing and responding to the environment without waiting for central commands. The octopus doesn’t operate according to a rigid organizational structure. It operates according to what needs to be done. It has a distributed intelligence system where work, not hierarchy, determines action. This is precisely the