Sharing power and trying to make everyone happy diminishes the ability to take bold risks and make bold decisions.


“If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either. Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you're going to get there one way or another...so they follow.”
― Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
― Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“Jerry Michalski notes that in the past, scarcity meant value. That is, without scarcity, you didn’t have a business. Now that notion has been upended. Dave Blakely of IDEO thinks about ExOs in the following way: “These new organizations are exponential because they took something scarce and made it abundant.� Nokia bought Navteq, trying to buy, own and control scarcity, only to be leapfrogged by Waze, which managed to harness abundance.”
― Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours
― Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours
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