If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
BEN HOROWITZYour employees know each other better than they know you.
More Ben Horowitz Quotes
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You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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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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Leadership is hard to train on.
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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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I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.
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For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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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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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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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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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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Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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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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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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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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