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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.

Ben Horowitz

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
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
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

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