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Functional Institutions are the Exception | Samo Burja

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Within nearly every institution bigger than a dozen people, insiders are resigned on how hard it is to get things done. They maintain a coordinated competence only barely above the level necessary to keep the institution in existence. Perhaps worse, many institutions persist for a surprisingly long time despite...

Functional Institutions are the Exception by Samo Burja | Jul 9, 2018 Functional Institutions are the Exception by Samo Burja | July 9, 2018 This is an excerpt from the draft of my upcoming book on great founder theory. Learn more here. Every great company is unique, but there are a few things that every business must get right at the beginning. I stress this so often that friends have teasingly nicknamed it “Thiel’s Law”: A startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed. – Peter Thiel, Zero to One, page 107 Within nearly every institution larger than a dozen people, insiders feel resigne

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