[hushpuppy]

> says Lindred Greer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

I wonder how many successful businesses this guy founded, created a culture of success, and handed it off to other people to see the company continue to grow.

I am guessing the number is pretty darn close to "0".

Because that is the only sort of "wisdom" I care about in this context; Success in making businesses.

Every business is different. Size matters. Bureaucracies don't scale.

Thinking that some self-reported information from a Dutch insurance firm is going to provide guidance to a auto manufacturer, Waffle House, or flooring manufacturer is like believing that all you need to do to make a sqlite database scale is by increasing the cpu count for your server linearly with database sizes.

Works fast with 1 core and 100MB database? Then it'll work exactly the same with a 32 core server and 3200MB database.

[munificent]

> I wonder how many successful businesses this guy founded, created a culture of success, and handed it off to other people to see the company continue to grow.

I'm pretty sure zero percent of marine biologists are actually sharks, but we still consider them qualified to study and understand sharks.

[mattcwilson]

As a quite successful shark, I was initially pretty cynical and amused at the idea that “marine biology experts” with no shark experience had anything of merit to say.

What brought me around was when I actually looked at some of their observations and realized that an outside perspective actually had unique and meaningful points for me to ponder that I don’t think I could have arrived at on my own, stuck inside my shark-preferential perspective.

(Now substitute shark : entrepreneur and marine biology : sociology)

[mecsred]

If I met a marine biologist that managed to construct their own shark, I would probably trust their shark knowledge more than their peers.

[eyelidlessness]

I can tilt my head a certain way and see that… but would you trust their judgment more than that of their peers? Like, maybe a paleontologist inviting me to a park full of dinosaurs is the world’s foremost expert on dinosaurs… but I’m not getting on that chopper.