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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.

Ben Horowitz

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
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
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
Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Anything Effort Knows Someone Something
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters

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