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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

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
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.
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Date Example Majority Problem Result
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
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
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
Don’t punk out and don’t quit.
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Inspirational Motivational Quit
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
If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?
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Done Jobs never Want
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
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
In life, you don’t have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you’re a CEO. CEOs aren’t born.
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Levels Nonsense Running
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
In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.
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Company Entrepreneur Valleys
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
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

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