Monday, October 18, 2010

Jared Diamond, HOW TO GET RICH, Edge, 1999

Rating: 4/5 Link
  • Overall principles of how to organize a business and get rich.
  • Really isolated groups are at a disadvantage, because most groups get most of their ideas and innovations from the outside.
  • You don't want excessive unity and you don't want excessive fragmentation; instead, you want your human society or business to be broken up into a number of groups which compete with each other but which also maintain relatively free communication with each other.