Great link - I almost passed on this - definitely worth a read.
Enjoyed how the author shows the dynamic at play between the "sociopath" (eg the business driver) and the "losers" (eg the salarymen that trade short term stability in for their pursuit of capitalism).
If you can find a field of "losers" - who are defined simply as those who produce, but are unwilling to risk failure for larger gain - you've got a sound business.
I don't read it as "losers" being people who are risk adverse - more that they are incapable of playing the political games required to ascend to the ranks of the ruling sociopaths and are incapable of descending level of the clueless - who really don't know any better.
I don't think the "losers" are people who are risk adverse, or incapable of playing political games, but rather have compartmentalized their lives and don't live for their career. The "clueless" are people who would be better off as "losers" but think they're "sociopaths", but they really are incapable of playing the political games.
Enjoyed how the author shows the dynamic at play between the "sociopath" (eg the business driver) and the "losers" (eg the salarymen that trade short term stability in for their pursuit of capitalism).
If you can find a field of "losers" - who are defined simply as those who produce, but are unwilling to risk failure for larger gain - you've got a sound business.
Absolutely, and 100% true in my experience.