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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
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
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
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
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
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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Company Deal Leaves Management
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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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Kind Moving Quality
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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