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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

Ben Horowitz

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
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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Believe Musical Genius People
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management

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