A batch of the best highlights from what Lukas's read, .
Being in the presence of someone with an inflated ego can limit free expression and corner you into playing a role that is not aligned with your true self.
How to Kill a Narcissist
JH Simon
Category designers take the next step to condition the market to see their aha the way they do and demand the new thing. The odds of success in this fast-moving, highly networked era are too overwhelming unless you possess the extremely rare talent of Jobs or one of the other preternaturally brilliant category designers such as Marc Benioff or Jeff Bezos.
Play Bigger
Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney
Change also causes internal disintegration. The organization may try to adapt reactively or proactively to the changes in its external environment, but it runs into problems because all organizations, like all systems, comprise subsystems, and those subsystems do not change synchronically.45 Some subsystems change faster than others, and that lack of coordination causes the organization to break apart, burst at the seams, come unglued. Even if an organization is not struggling to match changes in the external environment, it can still disintegrate internally.