by Jeff | Sep 11, 2016 | Hard thing about hard things book, Managing People, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
1-on-1s are really fucking important (see last post to understand the profanity). Horowitz preaches this, and he learned it from Andy Grove’s High Output Management (Horowitz says this is his favorite management book). Two tips. Let the employee set the agenda....
by Jeff | Sep 11, 2016 | Hard thing about hard things book, Managing People, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz had a fucking problem. There were people in his organization who had complained about all the profanity in the office. He was the CEO and had to make a decision: ban all profanity or allow it completely. This was a difficult decision. It wasn’t something...
by Jeff | Sep 11, 2016 | Hard thing about hard things book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
WFIO. Horowitz says that this expression was muttered so many times that they started to just say “wiff-ee-oh.” I had never heard this expression before and now I love it. I love it for two reasons. First, it puts things in perspective. Second, it’s important to...
by Jeff | Sep 11, 2016 | Hard thing about hard things book, Managing People, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
One of the first lessons in this book: manage your people. How did Horowitz learn this lesson? He had basically just saved his company. Rather than run out of money and go bankrupt, he had struck a miraculous deal to be acquired and to spin off one of the major units...