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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

Ben Horowitz

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No 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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
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

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