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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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Guy Hallucinating Ideas Looks
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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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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 a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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 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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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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