The hard thing on hard things book pick

1. From communist to VCWhat is leadership, behind the book, is an example of Steve Jobs, such as the next company, and what attracts those who follow jobs when the outlook is unclear? The author uses his own and his wife's meeting to explain, do not be trapped by the first impression, follow-up action even try not to try the next is the author of the first failure of entrepreneurship, and then work, finally re-start, and as CEO 2. I'll survive (from the Dot-bombs)Struggling to survive in all sorts of difficulties because of the 1999 dotcom bust, the author's Loudcloud company is in trouble, and they have to make an IPO in the troubled capital (which is hard to understand in China because everyone is listing as the ultimate goal). But unfortunately for the first quarter, the fiscal targets were not fulfilled, even the biggest rivals went bankrupt, lost their biggest customers, and finally had to sell the company's core business to one of the customers to get cash flow. 3. this time with feelingThe more struggling survival company's core business lost, the personnel also lost half, in the hard work after the establishment of a new product line. Then is the competitor's plunder, 60 days endlessly development, finally reached a realm that can still, finally is the company sells a good price 4. When things Fall apartThe hardest thing about being a CEO is that there are times when you don't have a good choice, only bad choices and worse choices, and you have to struggle to make a relatively better decision and make a move. The following examples are bad actions, such as layoffs, even a management, and a breakup with a startup partner. More times you don't have a flash way to solve your problem at once, you have to bite the bullet. In fact, no one is more your feelings, no one cares about these struggles and helpless. 5. Take care of the people, the products, and the profits-in that orderIn the company should pay attention to things, the most important thing is people. How to train? How to manage? How to recruit? 6. Concering The Going concernHow to continue to operate. What to do when the company continues to open up and grows larger 7. How to leads even when you don ' t know where is goingIn fact, everyone has a weak time, perhaps you still do not know how to do, but also can only in the current situation to go forward as long as the big to a certain extent, the company must have such a bullshit thing, you can not all the tube, it is impossible no matter, this feeling really makes people feel feel sick sometimes CEO to face is to choose among a few of the most poorly chosen ones, such as layoffs, selling the company, or developing a new product that looks hopeless. It's disgusting to make any decision. CEOs make decisions like this, one side is bad, the other is worse, and the outcome of all the tradeoffs is almost half to half, it's so hard and worse, if you make a decision, then the sound of support for that decision seems to be all right. Sometimes if you care too much about people's voices, A 70-to-30 decision will seem to be a 50-50 decision, because the opposition is always more loudly divided into two categories of managers, the first type is willing to set the direction of the company, while others are more willing to set the truth on how to make the company more efficient 8. First rule of Entrepreneurship:there is no rulesThe first rule of entrepreneurial ability is that there is no rule. The biggest problem is that the problems you face are not met by others, and there is no standard, difficult to judge, or a dilemmacontrollability, and the contradiction of creativity. If you give more freedom to your employees, you will lose control of your feelings, and if you have too many controls, your creativity and motivation will be even worse.Think in a different way and understand each other if you've done well before, how do you keep it? How to maintain after the scale becomes bigger? If the scale of the expansion is one-fold, the fact that a manager is doing is completely another job. Basically, if it's normal logic, it's always better to sell a company, especially if there are so many unknowns, it's risky to keep moving. But this is never a problem that simple logic can solve.If your company occupies an early stage of development and has a chance to take the lead, don't sell it. but easy to say, this standard is very difficult to judge, it is easy to fall into underestimating or overestimate their own misunderstanding, to tell the truth if you have this vision to do something else will be successfulWhy did the author sell his company Opsware? Because the acquirers themselves are prepared to pick one out of their competitors, you will buy someone else and do the business on your own. There are new technologies to challenge their markets, so it's bad to sell, so it's a good decision to sell .  9. The end of the beginning What to do afterwards, how the author makes a good VCcurrent VC State is that the best VC voted the best enterprise, the rest is the loss, the author wants to change the status quo, so to find out, what kind of enterprises will be successfulthen they found that the founders were more successful in making their own CEOs, but the creators themselves did have quite a few things to do, so the authors wanted to do a VC to provide these servicesfounders themselves missing the main two pointsone is related to the skills that they want to solve by providing mentor, after all there is no so-called effective CEO trainingOne is the network, and the author wants to be the same model as the ACC brokerage firm. In other words, people share and establish an effective interpersonal network.

The hard thing on hard things book pick