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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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Keith Rabois
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
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You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.
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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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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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You kinda want to look for the anomalies. You don't actually want to look for the expected behaviour.
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Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.
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