Simon Sinek argues no organization is perfectly infinite-minded. Most successful companies start idealistic but become finite-minded over time. He cites Airbnb's efforts to shift back, calls Elon Musk an idealistic repeatable visionary, and notes Microsoft, Walmart, and Apple have grown more finite-minded.
There's no such thing as a perfect infinite minded organization. There's no such thing as a perfect infinite minded leader, right? And companies go like this. Like I said, any company that's had any kind of success started infinite minded, idealistic entrepreneurs who wanted to change the world and were totally unrealistic. Of course, it's infinite minded and they become finite minded. Right? And the question is whether they can get it back again. Not fun. That standard business curve.
I'm impressed by. I mean, Airbnb has publicly announced that they want to be a more infinite minded organization and they want to run their company differently. And I think they're trying and I find that fascinating. We cannot ignore Elon Musk. He speaks in idealized terms and his ability to take a vision into multiple different businesses, because that's a good test, you know, whether you can repeat it in an entirely different industry over and over again, even though it's all based on the same basic vision that cannot be ignored. I'm curious about the companies that have been, aren't, and may could be again. I talked about Microsoft, I've talked about Walmart. I think Apple's up for grabs.
I think Apple is not as finite as some, but it's more finite than it used to be. And I think we notice the difference.
