Opening remarks - The Human Issues Underneath your Business Issues
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A McKinsey study with Loosen Research maps how social and emotional forces shape startup decisions, finding tight networks, worship of big exits, and preference for offline proximity create availability bias, anchoring bias and overconfidence that block hiring and scaling beyond local ecosystems. Evidence: founders trade planning for execution, treat entrepreneurship as a calling, and recycle capital through ex‐founder angels. Remedies tested are simple: deliberate counterfactuals, broadened hiring criteria, pay realistic salaries, and design customer experiences around human—not just rational—motivations.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 3:44High stakes decision making under uncertainty.
- 6:59To get economic capital, you need social capital
- 8:20Today's work is tomorrow's world.
- 9:49Work hard, play hard.
- 10:27Physical proximity is the real accelerator.
- 12:34The positive effects of your human issues.
- 13:21The negative effects on your decision-making.
- 14:33The negative effects on our culture and tribe.
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