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also, a 10% advantage at one level in the hierarchy doesn’t just add to the next level, it COMPOUNDS. at 10 levels, this is a x2.6 ish multiplier this is how you can get a CEO doing a typical days work but having outsized leveraged effect

the CEOs local behavior is just the same everyday convos and meeting you having with your own colleague. the status adjusts slightly but mostly remain the same. being “good” means consistently coming out with a slight status advantage

however just because a CEO is just “talking to people” it doesn’t mean it requires no skill. just like a high level improv actor, a bad actor stands out. the status stakes are also much much higher. every 10% change at the highest levels has massive cascading effects

so the way you increase your own leverage is to create a hierarchy of values in which you can consistently win. a “culture”, then build the company or social group around this culture by adding generals and lieutenants under you

the more layers you create, the more leveraged your everyday actions because you cause can cause massive status cascades leaving the lower levels scrambling to find a new equilibrium or even looking for a new job/group

the effort exerted in these tussles generates “free” energy created that can be redirected and transmuted into other forms like money for the company. this allows you asymmetric reward for the effort

think about how u worked extra hard for some recognition. then compound that upwards multiple layers and you can get a sense for how much energy can be created out of nothing but status interactions

the clueless (in the gervais sense) try to climb this ladder by contorting their values to the value hierarchy the losers conform but create a parallel value hierarchy for social relationships