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Ben Horowitz: “To be a good CEO people have to want to work for you” “What's the fundamental thing that you have to be able to do in order to be CEO? People have to want to work for you. That's it. Because if nobody wants to work for you… you can't actually do anything.” Ben urges founders to consider the reasons people actually want to work for a person: “Do they have good vision? Do they care about my interests and not just theirs? Are they somebody that I can get behind? These are the questions people ask of themselves.” He points out that TV generally portrays CEOs as ruthless, but that’s actually the opposite of what you want to do because nobody wants to work for a person like that. Video source: University of California (2010)

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Kobe Bryant says when he shifted from player to CEO he sought to hire curious people and stopped caring as much about how many hours they worked, and started caring more about the quality of their work “I expect excellent work. We all do. I don’t care if you’re here in the office at 6:00 a.m. and you leave at midnight. If the work that you do is average, this is not the home for you.” “Conversely, you cannot be in an office at all and have excellent work, this is the place for you. I don’t really care if you’re here.” “There are a lot of guys that get in the gym and work hard, work hard, work hard, work hard—but then they can’t transition that to 7:30.” “The important thing is curiosity first. I want curious people. People that ask questions, that want to figure things out, figure out new ways to do things. That’s the most important thing.” “Then from that curiosity, having a determination to see that curiosity through. If you figure out this is a particular course of action that we feel like we should be taking, has it been done before? No? That’s exciting to me. Let’s figure it out.”

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50,055 views • 21 days ago

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What absolute nonsense. Don't most people want to work hard to do better by their own families? To have a better house, better holidays, better furniture? Isn't that a worthwhile thing? Wouldn't life be very much better if more people took responsibility for their families and for building their own future? And when they do that, and have a little bit left over to help people less fortunate than themselves—isn't that a good thing? And aren't we trying to get the Third World out of the poverty it's in by building up its industries and having some investment to go and help them with? John Wesley answered the question you just put: 'Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.' It's not the money, it's not the wealth you create; it's what you do with it. Many people use their money to do more for the arts, to see more, to enjoy more of the great artistic works. Look at the fantastic voluntary effort in this country. It's enormous. Greed? Isn't it absurd! Trade unions mostly argue for higher wages. They argue for bigger differentials. Some people are greedy. But people who want a better standard of living and better way of life for their children are not. They're highly moral. They're highly valued citizens and they're usually those people who look after their houses, their families and they look after their neighbourhoods—community spirit. This is the real 'Thatcherism'.

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