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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:
If your company is a good place to work, you too may live long enough to find your glory.
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098 |

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:
If you don’t train your people, you establish no basis for performance management. As a result, performance management in your company will be sloppy and inconsistent.
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107 |

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:
…there is no investment that you can make that will do more to improve productivity in your company than a training program.
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110 |

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:
…being too busy to train is the moral equivalent of being too hungry to eat.
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110 |

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:
Good product managers… are not part of the product team; they manage the product team.
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111 |

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:
People generally leave companies when things are not going well…
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115 |

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:
…often candidates who do well in interviews turn out to be bad employees.
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117 |

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:
Running a large organization requires very different skills than creating and building an organization.
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121 |

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:
The more experience you have, the more you realize that there is something seriously wrong with every employee in your company (including you). Nobody is perfect.
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125 |

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things:
Consensus decisions about executives almost always sway the process away from strength and toward lack of weakness. It’s a lonely job, but somebody (only the CEO) has to do it.
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129 |