On: Michael Lewis and the parable of the lucky man taking the extra cookie (2017)

[akhodakivskiy]

the highest ranking person in the room won’t take the extra sandwich, but will take the extra million to buy as many sandwiches as he wants.

in this isolated experiment the entire organization consists of 3 persons, one of them a leader, and 4 sandwiches.

real world orgs are much more complex, and sandwiches take many subtle forms