I don’t personally want to do that, but I’m still interested in what I can learn about organizational design and culture from their success in their chosen field.
Question is: can this be learned from and applied to other industries which are not focused on extreme growth, such as more traditional industries or B2B work? I’m not sure.
but that's the point... why do you call it "success"
(I mean I get it: they are "good at making money" and "efficient" so you call it a "success" because that's what the capitalist society is pushing you to say / feel without asking yourself deeper questions)
Would you say that "heroin" is a success because it's very good at making people dependant?
You should probably use the term "they are very efficient at what they are doing" (descriptive) rather than "they are successful" (value judgment)
And then you should ask yourself: why are you praising efficiency for the sake of it?
And if you look further at the world, can't you see that efficiency and speed is actually one of our big issues? It's because we're over-efficient that we're consuming so much oil, decimating species, polluting our planet
If we were less efficient, sure we might have less stuff to play with (but who really cares?), but we would not be damaging our world so much
Perhaps you can take a few minutes to think deeply about it, and it might change your definition of "a success"
My definition of the term “success” does not include “I respect and approve of their goals”. I define “success” as “they achieved ambitious goals”, independently of my opinion of those goals.
There are plenty of successful politicians who I disagree with on virtually every issue. I would still classify them as “successful” and I am still interested in understanding how they managed to achieve those goals, despite disliking what they have done with those skills.
