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Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.

Ben Horowitz

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
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.
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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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People Said Thinking
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.

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Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn’t match… them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That’s the #1 reason this fails. And that’s generally a good place to start.

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