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:''“If you aim at the moon, you may only ever hit the top of the tree | :''“If you aim at the moon, you may only ever hit the top of the tree | ||
:''But if you aim at the top of the tree you may never get off the ground”’’ | :''But if you aim at the top of the tree you may never get off the ground”’’ | ||
::It’s not so bad on the ground. And what good are you to anyone stuck in the top of a tree? | ::It’s not so bad on the ground You have more options. And what good are you to anyone stuck in the top of a tree? | ||
[[The Banker and the Fisherman]] | [[The Banker and the Fisherman]] | ||
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===Organising principles=== | ===Organising principles=== | ||
*[[Mean reversion]] | *[[Mean reversion]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Mistaking luck for talent]] | ||
**The investment manager who beat the Dow nineteen years in a row | **The investment manager who beat the Dow nineteen years in a row | ||
**Promotion by random | **Promotion by random | ||
*[[Ten thousand hours]] buys you a ticket to the raffle. | *[[Ten thousand hours]] buys you a ticket to the raffle. | ||
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***To be in the right place in the first place. | ***To be in the right place in the first place. | ||
===Personality types and business=== | |||
'''The [[COO]] as an ISTJ''': Quiet, serious, earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. Decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions. Take pleasure in making everything orderly and organized - their work, their home, their life. Value traditions and loyalty. | |||
===[[Design of business]]=== | |||
Models of organising complex distributed systems: | |||
*[[Evolution]] | |||
*The [[invisible hand]] | |||
*The [[end-to-end principle]] | |||
Have a common design feature: They are not centrally planned. | |||
Design of business - The will to bureaucracy - optimal size for an organisation? Central management as the antithesis of good system design. | |||
===“No-one is well-rounded”=== | |||
Maybe — just maybe — that’s the problem? | |||
=== ''Statistically'', it won’t be you. === | === ''Statistically'', it won’t be you. === | ||