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.
BEN HOROWITZThere is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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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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It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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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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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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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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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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I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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