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I find the The Jim Collins books to be insightful. Good to Great. Built to Last, etc. Focuses on how the organizations are constructed and tries to divine pri

• ryandrake 2y ago
  Unfortunately, Good To Great is 300 pages of survivorship bias. It picks a group of companies that succeeded, and a group that failed, and then after the fact looks back to try to find what the survivors had in common. I don't know how you come out of that with any prescriptive steps on how to succeed. It's like having a classroom stand up and flip a coin, ask everyone who flipped tails to sit down, repeat the process until there's only a few people standing, and then interview them to try to understand what makes them good heads-flippers.