When businesses boom, teams get overconfident and ignore warnings about future risks. Success feels like proof the model works, so dissenting voices get silenced. Long-term concerns get pushed aside for short-term wins.
disagree because I think even if someone had the thought, I don't think it would have been anywhere near enough to turn around the momentum of the team. I can't believe that so many smart people in so many companies that there weren't people who raised their hands and said, yeah, but what if? And I'm sure their colleagues just turned on them and said either a version of what you said, which is we to solve the short-term problem. So don't even worry about that. We'll care about the long-term when we have time to care about the long-term. So they shut the person down or they just overrode them because they were, back to my emotional response, they were filled with their joy of their own success and they were finally realizing that, oh, I'm the master of the universe because here are the numbers that show me that my business model is finally working. So I'm brilliant and yada, yada, yada.
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