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I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.

Ben Horowitz

A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.

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