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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.

Ben Horowitz

You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
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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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role

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