Scary

An interesting description of a company culture to be avoided:

• You can't have a company that entirely consists of high ability people, you need a mix of less able people that the high ability people leverage.
  
• Intellectuals aren't interested in making money, so a company built around them won't stay viable.
  
• It's a harsh world where nice guys finish last - so you can't afford to be nice to employees and customers without an ulterior business reason.
  
• High ability people can't collaborate effectively, they intellectualize and self-destruct.
  
• Large companies need a strong management structure to avoid falling apart.
  
• Intellectuals must be run by B students since intellectuals are idealist and only greedy B students are pragmatic enough to make real decisions
  
• Doing things for the long term doesn't work.
  
• Being transparent about economics and operations is bad internally, worse externally and certainly won't scale.
  
• Don't reveal your weaknesses, especially to outsiders.
  
• The purpose of being international is to take advantage of people in weaker countries.
  
• Don't give production people powers that can be abused and hurt the company.
  
• Culture is secondary - it cannot be a sustainable advantage - you need a superior business model