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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

Ben Horowitz

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
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
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
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
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
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
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
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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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Ambition Communication Mistakes
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit

A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

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