Artificial Organizations

Senior executives are drowning in information, trapped in meetings, and making consequential decisions without the time or space to think. More tools haven't solved the problem. They've amplifi ed it. When decision-making falters, the cost isn't ineffi ciency-it's stalled initiatives, strategic misalignment, and capital deployed to low-return bets. In Artificial Organizations, Barry O'Reilly shows how to redesign the way you sense, frame, decide, and act by combining human and machine intelligence. You begin by identifying the traits that make you most effective, followed by the tasks where you create disproportionate value. Only then do you apply AI tools-so they sharpen judgment instead of adding noise. Using this system will help you: ¿ increase decision velocity without sacrifi cing rigor ¿ improve decision quality under sustained pressure ¿ turn meetings and conversations into compounding information assets ¿ build a personal AI operating system that reinforces executive presence ¿ move from scattered productivity gains to durable decision advantage Grounded in more than a decade advising CEOs and executive teams-and informed by building and scaling Nobody Studios, a global Top 10 AI venture studio-O'Reilly distills this experience into practical judgment infrastructure for the age of intelligence. Featuring real-world case studies from Amazon, American Airlines, Dotwork, HSBC, Progyny, Skyscanner, Slack, and more, Artifi cial Organizations shows how leading organizations have redesigned how decisions get made-not simply how work gets automated. This isn't about learning new tools. It's about transforming how you lead-so clarity, conviction, and results strengthen as speed increases across your organization.