Business schools and business leaders mistake hiring and promoting people who avoid delusional thinking as a virtue, but entrepreneurial economies depend on massive amounts of productive delusion—90% of startups fail, and this high failure rate only produces successful innovation because deluded entrepreneurs start them thinking they'll be the one success, not the nine failures.
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Roger MartinEvidence Quote
“the economy is underpinned by delusion... if anybody thought those were the odds that they personally were facing they wouldn't do it but they everybody is deluded self-deluded into thinking they're going to be the one”
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