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Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

Ben Horowitz

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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
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
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
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
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
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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About Decision Made Now Recognize
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
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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