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Founder led firms with vision and purpose have a super power others don't. Here's what Dee Hock of Visa wrote:

1. Healthy organizations are a mental concept of relationship to which people are drawn by hope, vision, values, and meaning, along with liberty to cooperatively
2. pursue them. Healthy organizations educe behavior. Educed behavior is inherently constructive. Unhealthy organizations are no less a mental concept of relationship, but one to which people are compelled by accident of birth, necessity, or force. Unhealthy organizations compel
3. behavior. Compelled behavior is inherently destructive. Since the strength and reality of every organization lies in the sense of community of the people who have been attracted to it, its success has enormously more to do with clarity of a shared purpose, common principles,
4. and strength of belief in them, than with money, material assets, or management practices, important as they may be. When an organization loses its shared vision and principles, its sense of community, its meaning and values, it is already in process of decay and dissolution,
5. even though it may linger with the outward appearance of success for some time. Businesses, as well as nations, races, and tribes die out not when defeated or suppressed, but when they become despairing and lose excitement and hope about the future. Without deeply held,
6. commonly shared purpose that gives meaning to their lives; without deeply held, commonly shared ethical values and beliefs about conduct in pursuit of that purpose that all may trust and rely upon, communities steadily disintegrate, and organizations progressively become
7. instruments of tyranny.

Founder led firms with employees motivated towards a common purpose have more self initiated action, more doing over and above what is required because this isn't just a job. When you aggregate thousands of pple doing that, the output gets magnified
End/ this is why founder led firms run faster and create so much more value over time than the professionally run ones.

Yet another soft aspect that most understand but hard to quantify into their financial models
@Molson_Hart thx again for pointing me to the book. It's been a great read so far! Many new ideas, concepts and fascinating history of Visa
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