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The same goes for today's leaders of organised crime, you have be CEO-material in order to manage 'Ndrangheta's ~50 billion euros business [1], it's not enough

The same goes for today's leaders of organised crime, you have be CEO-material in order to manage 'Ndrangheta's ~50 billion euros business [1], it's not enough just to be able to kill some guys on a dark street in Catanzaro anymore. [1] https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210113-ndrangheta-crime-group-biggest-mafia-trial-in-decades-kicks-off-in-italy https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210113-ndrangheta-crime...

spaetzleesser 5y ago
True. El Chapo or Pablo Escobar were excellent leaders and businessmen besides being remorseless killers.
- wolverine876 5y ago
  What is that based on?
  - spaetzleesser 5y ago
    They built and ran billion dollar international organizations that employed thousands of people and managed to not get killed or arrested for a long time. That's not an east thing to do in my book
TomAbel 5y ago
Here is a insightful blog post from Erik Bernhardsson on Business secrets from terrible people[1] where he writes about management lessons from the Taliban, Theranos, Al-Qaeda and The Black Kings a crack-dealing gang in Chicago. And here is an interesting article from the Economist on management lessons from Mexico’s drug lords[2] [1]https://erikbern.com/2018/08/16/business-secrets-from-terrible-people.html https://erikbern.com/2018/08/16/business-secrets-from-terrib... [2]https://www.economist.com/business/2014/06/25/narconomics https://www.economist.com/business/2014/06/25/narconomics Archive of the Economist article https://archive.md/EU3Wd https://archive.md/EU3Wd
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