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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

Ben Horowitz

A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
I believe in strength over lack of weakness.
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Believe Strength Weakness
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
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
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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Better Built Relationship Reverse
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Great Company Investment Stage
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
A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Keys Leader Management
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
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
Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?
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Ask Good Ideas Notes Self
When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’
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Lenses Looks Want
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
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

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