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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
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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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
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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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason

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