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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
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
It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Daily Life Management Stress
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters
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
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
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
It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.
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Clear Customer Want
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management

A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

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