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What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
Create Shocking Rules
from What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
Mike Benchimol added 9mo ago
If I trust you completely, then I require no explanation or communication of your actions at all, because I know that whatever you are doing is in my best interests. On the other hand, if I don’t trust you in the slightest, then no amount of talking, explaining, or reasoning will have any effect on me, because I will never believe you are telling m
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Dress for Success
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Incorporate Outside Leadership
from What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
Mike Benchimol added 9mo ago
the three types of bad employees, all of whom you should probably fire.
from What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
Mike Benchimol added 9mo ago
The Heretic Every company needs lots of smart, super-engaged employees who can identify its particular weaknesses and help it improve them. But some employees look for faults not so they can fix them, but so they can build a case. Specifically, a case that the company is hopeless and run by a bunch of morons.
from What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
Mike Benchimol added 9mo ago
if their startups outsource their engineering, they almost always fail. Why? It turns out that it’s easy to build an app or a website that meets the specification of some initial idea, but far more difficult to build something that will scale, evolve, handle edge cases gracefully, etc. A great engineer will only invest the time and effort to do all
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Great sales cultures are competitive, aggressive, and highly compensated—but only for results.
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Mike Benchimol added 9mo ago
One way to think about designing your culture is to conceive it as a way to specify the kinds of employees you want. What virtues do you value most in employees?
from What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
Mike Benchimol added 9mo ago