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You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.

Ben Horowitz

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually
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Become Entrepreneur Successful
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
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
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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Ambition Communication Mistakes
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
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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Mind Remember Stories
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.
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Building Great People Things
Leadership is hard to train on.
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Hard Leadership Train
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
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
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
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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Decision Goal Made
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
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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Career Decision Emotional

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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