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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

Ben Horowitz

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want

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