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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

Ben Horowitz

Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
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
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

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