“What got you here won’t get you there” applies not only to founders, but to the organizations they build. An underappreciated aspect of this is risk and chaos, and how it appeals to discrete personalities. I consider most of these archteype to respond mostly to certain levels of organizational chaos - and as such, there are areas where they thrive, and areas where they are out of their depth. I’ll hearken back partially to Wardley’s Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners as part of this. Personalities Link to heading Cowboys (Initial Build) Link to heading Maximum chaos. Processes and people pop in and out of existence from day to day. This is the Time of Legends, when the great elder gods of the organization will be formed. Things matter, but at the same time, the business could be gone tomorrow, so nothing really matters all that much. You do what has to be done to survive another day, and hope that the compromises you make don’t kill you later.…