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Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.

Ben Horowitz

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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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 life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
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
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Bigger Management People
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife

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