What Samo Burja thinks about ambition

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Founder of the consultancy Bismarck Analysis and author of Great Founder Theory, writing about how institutions are built, how they decay, and why civilisations collapse.

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1. 24 Apr 2018

   Our readingThe easiest way for an institution to protect its reputation is to stop attempting anything that could visibly fail.

   Their wordsAn easy way to avoid spoiling a reputation is by never failing, and an easy way to never visibly fail is to never undertake a task.

   ↗Institutional Failure as Surprisesamoburja.com 3rd of 3 in this piece