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Artificial Organizations: Build Better Judgment, Speed, and Results with Human and Machine Intelligence
154 pages, Paperback
Published March 25, 2026
About the author
Barry O'Reilly
7 books43 followersBarry O’Reilly is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation.
Barry is the co-founder of Nobody Studios, a crowd-infused, high-velocity venture studio with the mission to create 100 compelling companies over the next 5 years.
Barry is the founder of ExecCamp, the entrepreneurial experience for executives, management consultancy Barry O’Reilly, LLC and serves on the Board of many high growth startups—the most recent of which AgileCraft, acquired by Atlassian.
Barry is author of two international bestsellers, Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results, and Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale—included in the Eric Ries series, and a Harvard Business Review must read for CEOs and business leaders.
He is an internationally sought-after speaker, frequent writer and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review.
Barry is faculty at Singularity University, advising and contributing to Singularity’s executive and accelerator programs based in San Francisco, and throughout the globe.
His mission is to help purposeful, technology-led businesses innovate at scale.
Barry is the co-founder of Nobody Studios, a crowd-infused, high-velocity venture studio with the mission to create 100 compelling companies over the next 5 years.
Barry is the founder of ExecCamp, the entrepreneurial experience for executives, management consultancy Barry O’Reilly, LLC and serves on the Board of many high growth startups—the most recent of which AgileCraft, acquired by Atlassian.
Barry is author of two international bestsellers, Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results, and Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale—included in the Eric Ries series, and a Harvard Business Review must read for CEOs and business leaders.
He is an internationally sought-after speaker, frequent writer and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review.
Barry is faculty at Singularity University, advising and contributing to Singularity’s executive and accelerator programs based in San Francisco, and throughout the globe.
His mission is to help purposeful, technology-led businesses innovate at scale.
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June 29, 2026
The themes and tools Barry articulated in the book are reasonable. I found this to be one of the more direct business books I've read with clear coaching and examples.
That said, I almost DNF this book at the Preface because it's like reading ChatGPT. The common AI tropes are all over it: "that's not X, it's Y" (like... Almost every paragraph). Em dashes galore, random bolding. If the publisher would have let them keep emojis in the book, it would have been indistinguishable from a ChatGPT response.
Barry mentions having worked with a writer on Unlearn to help with his dyslexia, so I give credit for using the tools, but I wish someone would have updated the prompting or taken a pass to clean up the content that seems obviously AI generated.
I struggled between 2 and 3 stars. I got past the style and the substance was more actionable than most, plus it's super short which helped it.
That said, I almost DNF this book at the Preface because it's like reading ChatGPT. The common AI tropes are all over it: "that's not X, it's Y" (like... Almost every paragraph). Em dashes galore, random bolding. If the publisher would have let them keep emojis in the book, it would have been indistinguishable from a ChatGPT response.
Barry mentions having worked with a writer on Unlearn to help with his dyslexia, so I give credit for using the tools, but I wish someone would have updated the prompting or taken a pass to clean up the content that seems obviously AI generated.
I struggled between 2 and 3 stars. I got past the style and the substance was more actionable than most, plus it's super short which helped it.
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