The single most important duty of a CEO is recruiting
I consider the most important job of someone like myself recruiting.
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Recruiting is what makes or brake a company. The biggest mistake thus far in my startup is recruiting people who were too similar to me. Coming from the same background, we had similar ideas, looked at problems in a similar fashion. I’d rather have had someone who questioned my opinions and with complementary skills
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The Brook's law states that when a person is added to a project team, and the project is already late, the project time is longer, rather than shorter. Brooks’ law is recognized as applicable to any complex endeavor involving lots of people interacting together, not just software engineering.
We need to think about failure differently.
I’m not the first to say that failure, when approached properly, can be an opportunity for growth. But the way most people interpret this assertion is that mistakes are a necessary evil. Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all.
They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new (and, as such, should be seen as valuable; without them, we’d have no originality). And yet, even as I say that embracing failure is an important part of learning, I also acknowledge that acknowledging this truth is not enough.
That’s because failure is painful, and our feelings about this pain tend to screw up our understanding of its worth. To disentangle the good and the bad parts of failure, we have to recognize both the reality of the pain and the benefit of the resulting growth.
Any goal can be pursued in a variety of ways. It is the job of strategy to choose the most effective course of action for attaining objectives.
Whether a small or an ambitious one, projects which do not have enough ressources allocated are bound to fail
