Ever felt like you’re the bottleneck — the one brain trying to juggle every moving piece until the whole thing collapses?

In this episode, Pia shares a true story of running a chaotic innovation project in India… while accidentally locked in a toilet with no reception. That moment of enforced stillness led her to one of nature’s best system designers: the octopus.

Two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons live in its arms, allowing it to sense, decide, and adapt without waiting for head office — a strategy that inspired The Octopus Method, a biomimicry-based approach to distributed leadership and team collaboration.

Discover how distributed intelligence can reduce bottlenecks, unlock team autonomy, and turn chaos into adaptive flow — from high-pressure projects to everyday life.

If this episode made you see teamwork a little differently, share it with someone who’s got their own set of clever arms in the mix.

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