About halfway through the first season of Shift Dialogs, we started asking our guests the same question: “What advice would you give your 20-year old self?”
Below are answers from a diverse group of folks: Nathan Blecharczyk of Airbnb, Debby Hopkins of Citi, Evan Williams of Medium, Marc Pritchard of P&G, and Bruce Aust of Nasdaq.
Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan’s first book, The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office, served as both a powerful critique of how organizations and a spirited defense of what organizations can do. Their new followup, The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them – and They Shape Us, goes even deeper and lays bare the markets that make all those orgs possible.
The basic idea behind The Inner Lives of Markets is that markets encompass much more than what we usually think they do and that they’re much more than financial: they’re contracts for how to behave, with wide-reaching implications when the rules change or are ignored, as happens all the time.
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