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Wenn es hart auf hart kommt: Schwierige Management-Situationen und wie man sie meistert (edition 2014)

by Ben Horowitz (Author)

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Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startupâ??practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn't cover, based on his popular ben's blog.

While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he's gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.

Filled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences.… (more)

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Title:Wenn es hart auf hart kommt: Schwierige Management-Situationen und wie man sie meistert
Authors:Ben Horowitz (Author)
Info:books4success (2014), 288 Seiten
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Tags:Management, Unternehmen, BĂĽcherexport, Berater-Wiki

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

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Wow. This will be a classic book about how to build and run business for ages to come. Truly awesome. ( )
  Santhosh_Guru | Oct 19, 2023 |
Packed with war stories about his experience being involved and building startups (largely as the CEO) there are many good insights.

Having to make so many decisions that could result in the life or death of a company would not have been easy. Some of my takeaways:
- Everyone makes mistakes so don’t be too hard on yourself
- Ask "What would you do if we went bankrupt?" for a source of good ideas and potential pivots
- Be open with the team about challenges (they may have great ideas)
- Make tough decisions and then act decisively
- Be visible and engaging
- "Take care of the people, the products and the profits in that order"
- Hire for strength, not for lack of weaknesses.
- Good product managers act as the CEO of their products.
- Managing by numbers is like painting by numbers. Can drive a short term focus.
- Anything you measure creates a side effect of behaviours.
- Hire people with the right type of ambition. Ambition for the company vs the team vs themselves.
- 1:1s should be considered the employee's meeting, not the manager's meeting.
- "Think of the organisational design as the communications architecture for your company. If you want people to communicate the best way to accomplish that is to make them report to the same manager"
- "The organisational design is also the architecture for how the company communicates with the outside world"
- Everything is hard when you don't know what you are doing.
- "People judge you for what you do not how you feel" ( )
  gianouts | Jul 17, 2023 |
Not a good book. Big fan of his blog (at least some entries), and the parts of this book that cites those gems were great. Besides that, not at all a useful reference. ( )
  kernery | Aug 19, 2022 |
Solid book. Enjoyed the first half where Ben Horowitz told the story of founding his company and the lessons learned. Second half off the book was more management tutorial and CEO development messages, which I enjoyed and learned things from, but overall wanted more storytelling (I read this book because it was supposed to be similar to the Bob Igor Disney book). ( )
  Zach-Rigo | May 28, 2022 |
Read this book because of the overwhelming feedback but was more or less disappointed.
First of all the author stated that the chapters are based on blog posts and that is also what you get. Furthermore some topics get repetetive presented over and over again and you miss a straight structure.
Last but not least I simply do not agree with some the statements (profanity e.g.) and I do not understand why I every chapter starts with a quote from a hip hop song. Sure I did not sell a billion dollar company (yet ;) ) but that does not mean that I need to agree with everything.

There are some informatione that make you think more about certain management topics but besides of that I did not enjoy it very much as I also missed a bit more elaborate style. ( )
  iffland | Mar 19, 2022 |
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Business. Nonfiction. HTML:

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startupâ??practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn't cover, based on his popular ben's blog.

While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he's gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.

Filled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences.

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