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What I learned from reading One From Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---Walking away at the pinnacle of success was the hardest thing I have ever done (0:01)Through the years, I have greatly feared and sought to keep at bay the four beasts that inevitably devour their keeper – Ego, Envy, Avarice, and Ambition. In 1984, I severed all connections with business for a life of isolation and anonymity, convinced I was making a great bargain by trading money for time, position for liberty, and ego for contentment – that the beasts were securely caged. –Dee Hock (4:14)Visa was little more than a set of unorthodox convictions about organization slowly growing in the mind of a young corporate rebel (9:03)Dee's first jobs (21:44)Learning how mechanistic, Industrial Age organizations really function (28:17)Useful questions to ask in your organization (34:30)A failure