A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
BEN HOROWITZIt’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Leadership is hard to train on.
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