
How to Feel Significant (again?) | Seth Godin
Good Life Project
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The Song of Significance
Milton Friedman was fundamentally mistaken when he announced that the only purpose of a corporation was to maximize shareholder value. But what it did was give senior leadership a license to loot and pillage and to justify all of their actions. Most people had a regular job seeking a career that would last a long time as they incrementally followed instructions. And this isn't natural. It's just common for 80 years, but those 80 years are up. We're going to shift now enabled by this distributed asynchronous world of work to create value for others horizontally instead of vertically.
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