Ben Horowitz Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match... them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That's the #1 reason this fails. And that's generally a good place to start: Here's where we are and here's what I didn't recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

  Ben Horowitz

  Jobs, Mistake, Decision

• Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

  Ben Horowitz

  Mistake, Communication, Ambition

• The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

  Ben Horowitz

  Jobs, Mistake, Mean

  "Ben Horowitz: Founders Should Learn How To Be CEO" by Boonsri Dickinson, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2012.

• If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.

  Ben Horowitz

  Mistake, Team, Organization

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