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Another sign that trust is lacking is when board members begin to develop back channels to line managers within the company.

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Boards

Harvard Business Review, Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, Linda A. Hill, Robert S. Kaplan, and Ram Charan

The best startups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful startup are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed. You’re not going to learn those kinds of secrets from consultants, and you don’t need to worry if your company doesn’t make sense to conventional professionals. Better to be called a cult—or even a mafia.

Zero to One

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

They might have seen a documentary like The Double Bottom Line, which told the story of two companies, D.light Design and LifeSpring Hospitals, that, like so many businesses now, merged two goals: to “change the world” and to “make a profit.”

Winners Take All

Anand Giridharadas

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