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You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.

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Keith Rabois
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 17
Businessperson
Executive Management
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Edison Township
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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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Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.
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The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.
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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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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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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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I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.
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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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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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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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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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The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.
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The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.
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The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.
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The next thing you do is allocate resources.
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Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.
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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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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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