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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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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks 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
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
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
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
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
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
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

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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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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