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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

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
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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
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
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
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important

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