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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

Ben Horowitz

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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
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
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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

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