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I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product

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Keith Rabois
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
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The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.
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It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.
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It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.
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Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.
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Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.
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You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.
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The next thing you do is allocate resources.
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Don't accept the excuse of complexity. A lot of people will tell you, this is too challenging, this is too complicated, yeah well I know other people simplify but that's not for me, this is a complicated business. They're wrong. You can change the world in 140 characters.
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So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.
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