The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare. The hard thing is getting people to communicate within the organization that you just designed. The hard thing isn’t setting up an organizational chart. The hard thing is when those “great people” develop a sense of entitlement and start demanding unreasonable things. The hard thing isn’t hiring great people. The hard thing is laying people off when you miss the big goal. The hard thing isn’t setting a big, hairy, audacious goal. The book is one of the best business books I’ve read in a long time. “There’s no recipe for leading a group of people out of trouble,” writes Ben Horowitz in The Hard Thing About Hard Things. There is no formula for dealing with complexity that’s always changing. You’re reading something with no practical value and you’re not really learning anything. The problem with most business books is they present a formula for problems that ultimately have no formula.
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