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Ideally, the CEO will be urgent yet not insane. She will move aggressively and decisively without feeling emotionally culpable. If she can separate the importance of the issues from how she feels about them, she will avoid demonizing her employees or herself.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Opinion | The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms - The New York Times
nytimes.comnytimes.comI amend my previous statement. CEOs are often thrown into the deepest end of the ocean, not just the pool. They are often losing their shit while doing their best to learn as much as they can, take calculated risks, appear to be in complete control, and keep their marriages and friendships from completely falling apart, all while trying to fulfill
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The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
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Ben Horowitz on Peacetime vs. Wartime CEOs:
Management literature is almost entirely written for peacetime CEOs. Everything you learn about decision-making and delegation and “don't micromanage”, all these things are very peacetime oriented in the sense that in peacetime, you're much more focused on the development of the people and the organization
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