The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz pt2

Topics:

- Take care of the people, products and the profits, in that order
- Hire for strengths, not lack of weakness
- Training your employees is the single most important thing you can do to leverage your business
- Two ways to improve productivity: motivation or training
- Good product manager qualities applied to everyday life
- Being a great manager/leader is about managing the people who are better at a skill/function than you are
- Be careful about setting short term goals that may conflict with your long term vision. Mitigate this by thinking about how you plan to achieve your short term goals, as this will highlight any contradictions with your long term goals
- Management debt: You can have a short term speedy solution that will have a long term consequence you will have to answer for
- If you don't address politics as a leader, it will ironically create a very political environment
- Three types of smart employees that are damaging to a company: the heretic, the flake & the jerk
- Most successful companies have a cult like culture. You want to be provocative enough in order to change how people operate on a daily basis, implement some change that is trivial but will have far reaching outcomes for a long time

Tune in next week for the final installment of this interesting book

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