Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
BEN HOROWITZPlanning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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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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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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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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Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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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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Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.
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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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