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Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.

Keith Rabois

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Keith Rabois
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Businessperson
Executive Management
Investor
Edison Township
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The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of initiatives. So you have to distill it down to one, two, or three things and use a framework they can repeat, they can repeat without thinking about, they can repeat to their friends, they can repeat at night.
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Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.
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If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.
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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 generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job.
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When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.
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Ultimately, I don't believe that you can build a company without a lot of effort, and that you need to lead by example.
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Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.
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Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.
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Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.
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I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product
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What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.
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It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.
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Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.
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Possibly the most important thing you do is actually edit the team.
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You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.
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The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.
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The next thing you do is allocate resources.
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The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.
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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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