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As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
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
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
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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Believe Statistics
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
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
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
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks

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