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, 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...