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The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Ben Horowitz

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
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
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
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People
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 person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.
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Company Deal Leaves Management
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
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

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