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Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
The one thing with stress is, you’ve got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.
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Focus Management Stress
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns
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
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
Your employees know each other better than they know you.
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Employee Knows Management
Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.
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Business Dynamic Ends Situation
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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Dignity Jobs Management
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
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
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
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
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver

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