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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

Ben Horowitz

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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
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
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
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

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