As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
BEN HOROWITZFor 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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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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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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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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The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.
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A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.
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Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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There are no silver bullets.
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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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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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Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating
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It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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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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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.
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