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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating

Ben Horowitz

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
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
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 believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
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
Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings
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Beyonce Mark More Popular Time
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
The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Important People Phones
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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
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

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