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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.

Ben Horowitz

A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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 only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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Company Repair Running
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

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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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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