Transcript
Introduction
The line attributed to the management guru Peter Drucker is "that culture eats strategy. It's a truism that applies as much to conspiracies as it does to businesses. It doesn't matter how great your plan is, it doesn't matter who your people are." "If what binds them all together is weak or toxic, so, too, will be the outcome if you even get that far. But if the ties that bind you together are strong, if you have a sense of purpose and mission, you can withstand great trials."
So that was a paragraph I came across while reading the book that I want to talk to you about today, Conspiracy, Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and The Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday. And today is going to be a little different. Normally, each podcast that I do is centered around one book, today its centered around 2. So a few years ago, I read Peter Thiel's book Zero to One, which as far as business books go contains almost no fluff. It's relatively short, about 180, 190 pages, something you could easily read in a weekend. And as I was halfway through a podcast on Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, I started listening to the audiobook of Conspiracy.