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"A company is a modern-day tribe. Hiring someone for your company is akin to having a child," Sinek said in a well-received TED talk Friday. "If you have hard times in your family, would you ever consider laying off one of your children? We would never do it. Then why do we consider laying off people inside our organizations?"