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Leadership is hard to train on.

Ben Horowitz

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
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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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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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Length Management Years
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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People Problem Smart
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.
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Entrepreneur Found Needs
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right.
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Decision Lonely Running
It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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Executive Goal Quarters

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