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The book argues there is no recipe for complex, dynamic situations and instead offers lessons drawn from the author’s experiences as entrepreneur, CEO, and venture capitalist. It covers layoffs, communication, organizational culture, scaling, leadership without certainty, and the accountability–creativity paradox through practical chapters and reflections.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDEDICATION  \nThis is for Felicia, Sophia, Mariah, and the Boocher, mi familia, for putting up with me when I was learning all of this.  \nOne hundred percent of my portion of the proceeds of this book will go to help women in developing countries gain basic civil rights via the American Jewish World Service. They truly face the hard things.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nDedication  \nIntroduction  \nChapter 1: From Communist to Venture Capitalist  \nChapter 2: “I Will Survive”  \nChapter 3: This Time with Feeling  \nChapter 4: When Things Fall Apart The Struggle  \nCEOs Should Tell It Like It Is The Right Way to Lay People Off Preparing to Fire an Executive Demoting a Loyal Friend  \nLies That Losers Tell  \nLead Bullets  \nNobody Cares  \nChapter 5: Take Care of the People, the Products, and the Profits—in That Order  \nA Good Place to Work  \nWhy Startups Should Train Their People  \nIs It Okay to Hire People from Your Friend’s Company?  \nWhy It’s Hard to Bring Big Company Execs into Little Companies Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good?  \nWhen Employees Misinterpret Managers  \nManagement Debt  \nManagement Quality Assurance Chapter 6: Concerning the Going Concern  \nHow to Minimize Politics in Your Company The Right Kind of Ambition  \nTitles and Promotions  \nWhen Smart People Are Bad Employees Old People  \nOne-on-One  \nProgramming Your Culture  \nTaking the Mystery Out of Scaling a Company The Scale Anticipation Fallacy  \nChapter 7: How to Lead Even When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going  \nThe Most Difficult CEO Skill The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage Ones and Twos  \nFollow the Leader Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO Making Yourself a CEO How to Evaluate CEOs  \nChapter 8: First Rule of Entrepreneurship: There Are No Rules Solving the Accountability vs. Creativity Paradox The Freaky Friday Management Technique  \nStaying Great  \nShould You Sell Your Company? Chapter 9: The End of the Beginning  \nAppendix: Questions for Head of Enterprise Sales Force Acknowledgments  \nAbout the Author  \nCredits  \nCopyright  \nAbout the Publisher  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nINTRODUCTION  \n“This the real world, homie, school finished They done stole your dreams, you dunno who did it.”  \n—KANYE WEST,“GORGEOUS”  \nEvery time I read a management or self-help book, I find myself saying,“That’s fine, but that wasn’t really the hard thing about the situation.” The hard thing isn’t setting a big, hairy, audacious goal. The hard thing is laying people off when you miss the big goal. The hard thing isn’t hiring great people. The hard thing is when those “great people” develop a sense of entitlement and start demanding unreasonable things. The hard thing isn’t setting up an organizational chart. The hard thing is getting people to communicate within the organization that you just designed. The hard thing isn’t dreaming big. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night ina cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare.  \nThe problem with these books is that they attempt to provide a recipe for challenges that have no recipes. There’s no recipe for really complicated, dynamic situations. There’s no recipe for building a high-tech company; there’s no recipe for leading a group of people out of trouble; there’s no recipe for making a series of hit songs; there’s no recipe for playing NFL quarterback; there’s no recipe for running for president; and there’s no recipe for motivating teams when your business has turned to crap. That’sthe hard thing about hard things—there is no formula for dealing with them.  \nNonetheless, there are many bits of advice and experience that can help with the hard things.  \nI do not attempt to present a formula in this book. Instead, I present my story and the difficulties that I have faced. 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