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The survivorship bias in these vids and articles is overwhelming. Spend any time in corporate america and you'll see that the "success" stories are often run behind the fancy public veneer, by tyrannical megalomaniacs who give not a whit for their employees so long as the cog remains working hard for the machine.

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Most of the similar materials are like that.

You could give the transcript of these interviews to a Mr-nobody-Joe-Schmoe and have them say it. And no one would care, if not laugh to their face.

It's 90% about who says it, and maybe 10% about what is being said.

It's not even secret sauce.

Pick up most management books and you'ok see the same.

Jack Welch's version was "get the right people on the bus and then decide where to go"

Lou Gestners is "culture is not part of the game, it's the only game"

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