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Leadership is hard to train on.

Ben Horowitz

These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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Choice Consequences Life Magnified Plentiful Wrong
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
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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Company Deal Leaves Management
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
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
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
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Believe Inspiration Needs
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
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Challenges Communication Company
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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Accurate Decision Good Jobs Mistake Place Reason
When I was CEO, and I’d listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
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Express Inspiration Jobs People

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