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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Ben Horowitz

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
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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Mind Remember Stories
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
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
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
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management

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