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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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
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
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
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
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

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

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