The hard thing about hard things : building a business when there are no easy answers /: building a business when there are no easy answers. ([2014])
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- Book
- Title:
- The hard thing about hard things : building a business when there are no easy answers /: building a business when there are no easy answers. ([2014])
- Main Title:
- The hard thing about hard things : building a business when there are no easy answers
- Further Information:
- Note: Ben Horowitz.
- Authors:
- Horowitz, Ben, 1966-
- Contents:
- 1. From Communist to venture capitalist -- 2. "I will survive" -- 3. This time with feeling -- 4. When things fall apart : The struggle ; CEOs should tell it like it is ; The right way to lay people off ; Preparing to fire an executive ; Demoting a loyal friend ; Lies that losers tell ; Lead bullets ; Nobody cares -- 5. Take care of the people, the products, and the profits--in that order : A good place to work ; Why startups should train their people ; Is it okay to hire people from your friend's company? ; Why it's hard to bring big company execs into little companies ; Hiring executives: if you've never done the job, how do you hire somebody good? ; When employees misinterpret managers ; Management debt ; Management quality assurance -- 6. Concerning the going concern : How to minimize politics in your company ; The right kind of ambition ; Titles and promotions ; When smart people are bad employees ; Old people ; One-on-one ; Programming your culture ; Taking the mystery out of scaling a company ; The scale anticipation fallacy -- 7. How to lead even when you don't know where you are going : The most difficult CEO skill ; The fine line between fear and courage ; Ones and twos ; Follow the leader ; Peacetime CEO/wartime CEO ; Making yourself a CEO ; How to evaluate CEOs -- 8. First rule of entrepreneurship: there are no rules : Solving the accountability vs. creativity paradox ; The freaky Friday management technique ; Staying great ; Should you sell your company? -- 9.1. From Communist to venture capitalist -- 2. "I will survive" -- 3. This time with feeling -- 4. When things fall apart : The struggle ; CEOs should tell it like it is ; The right way to lay people off ; Preparing to fire an executive ; Demoting a loyal friend ; Lies that losers tell ; Lead bullets ; Nobody cares -- 5. Take care of the people, the products, and the profits--in that order : A good place to work ; Why startups should train their people ; Is it okay to hire people from your friend's company? ; Why it's hard to bring big company execs into little companies ; Hiring executives: if you've never done the job, how do you hire somebody good? ; When employees misinterpret managers ; Management debt ; Management quality assurance -- 6. Concerning the going concern : How to minimize politics in your company ; The right kind of ambition ; Titles and promotions ; When smart people are bad employees ; Old people ; One-on-one ; Programming your culture ; Taking the mystery out of scaling a company ; The scale anticipation fallacy -- 7. How to lead even when you don't know where you are going : The most difficult CEO skill ; The fine line between fear and courage ; Ones and twos ; Follow the leader ; Peacetime CEO/wartime CEO ; Making yourself a CEO ; How to evaluate CEOs -- 8. First rule of entrepreneurship: there are no rules : Solving the accountability vs. creativity paradox ; The freaky Friday management technique ; Staying great ; Should you sell your company? -- 9. The end of the beginning -- Appendix: Questions for head of Enterprise sales force. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Copyright Date:
- 2014
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (x, 289 pages)
- Subjects:
- 658.11
New business enterprises -- Management
Entrepreneurship
Success in business
Entrepreneurship
Nouvelles entreprises -- Gestion
Entrepreneuriat
Succès dans les affaires
entrepreneurs
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Leadership
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Management
Entrepreneurship
New business enterprises -- Management
Success in business - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780062273215
0062273213 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780062273208
0062273205 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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