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

Ben Horowitz

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
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
The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation

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