I recall Netflix’s Reed Hastings at an event called Founders in Dublin, Ireland, talking about the differences between a family and a sports team. In a family, he explained, you accept people for who they are—and you can’t change them. If you have an uncle who shows up every Thanksgiving and gets inappropriately drunk, for better or worse, he’s still your uncle. But in a sports team, you have high expectations of one another and have an obligation to change and improve the inner mechanisms of the group. Everyone needs to pass the ball. Your position is never set—and you’re always out to win.
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