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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.

Ben Horowitz

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
Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
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
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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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Kind Moving Quality
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
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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Book Enemy Fighting
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
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
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs

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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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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