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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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Executive Management
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Edison Township
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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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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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Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.
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Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.
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Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.
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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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