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27 Feb 2019 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent
“I think internalizing, truly, deeply internalizing that most things in life are not as risky as they seem, most things in life are two-way doors — you can come back — and that even if people that you work with or in the press or whatever call you idiots and say, “Oh!”
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- 27 Feb 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Whoever it will be. The key to doing that for any organization — I think it is actually harder to reinvent an organization than it is to do it the first time. The hardest thing in business is an organization that produces repeated innovation and success because loss aversion is so high. Resistance to change is so high when you have something that’s working. Putting the risk to make it work better is not a bet that ever feels comfortable. I think internalizing, truly, deeply internalizing that most things in life are not as risky as they seem, most things in life are two-way doors — you can come back — and that even if people that you work with or in the press or whatever call you idiots and say, “Oh! ” — that doesn’t mean you have to listen to them. Can you ever appease your critics? When people call you idiots?…
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