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Whenever an entrepreneur asks me to invest in his company, I ask him how much he intends to pay himself. A company does better the less it pays the CEO-that's one of the single clearest patterns I've noticed
Dawkins saw cultural transmission as analogous to genetic transmission and thus a mechanism of evolution in its own right. Language in particular can evolve much faster than organisms do, and nowhere is cultural transmission more important than in the form of ‘communicable’ ideas.
Darwin's Blind Spot: The Role of Living Interactions in Evolution
Frank Ryan
In examining the history of the visionary companies, we were struck by how often they made some of their best moves not by detailed strategic planning, but rather by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and—quite literally—accident. What looks in hindsight like a brilliant strategy was often the residual result of opportunistic experimentation and “purposeful accidents.”
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
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