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justinhj on April 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”

I think it's a comforting thought that people only succeed because of exceptional luck but that doesn't make it true.

Worship is a problem, but methodical research of the sort that went into "Good to Great" is not.

gumby on April 8, 2017 [–]

Have you looked what happened to the companies profiled in that book?

justinhj on April 9, 2017 | [–]

That's a fair point :) Fannie Mae and Circuit City being among them. The question is did they abandon the principles described in the book or die due to unforeseeable circumstances?

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