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The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

Ben Horowitz

A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
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

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