The Hard Thing About Hard Things
21min
The Hard Thing About Hard Things clearly defines the difficult role of a CEO of any company. Using his own experience as the starting point, Ben Horowitz retraces the steps, providing a truly comprehensive guide, along with some useful advice, not only on how to lay down the foundations of a company, but more importantly, on how to navigate through the difficult times. In fact, the “hard thing” is not really managing a company in peacetime, when everything is running smoothly, but managing one during a war, when the pressure is on, emotions run high, and the risks are completely unpredictable. One can become a good CEO through experience and by making difficult tasks become easy, and impossible ones become possible. The only hard and fast rule is to fight with conviction.
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