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Organizations are dragged into mediocrity by a force no one controls but everyone obeys, until their founders lose control of what they built.

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  1. Eric Ries

    Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible

    I call it the force that no one controls but everyone obeys that tends to drag organizations down into mediocrity to the point that we lose control of them. Now, sometimes we lose control of them because we get fired.

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