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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

Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
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
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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Communication Keys Quality
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse

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

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