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The Hard Thing About Hard Things hardcover

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

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What You’ll Learn

  • Lead Through Difficult Decisions
  • Build and Manage a Growing Team
  • Respond to Setbacks with Clear Priorities

What happens after the launch when the decisions stop being easy? Ben Horowitz draws on his experience building and running technology companies to explore the difficult human and operational choices founders face. This candid book helps you think through leadership under pressure, team decisions, and the responsibilities of the CEO role when a tidy business-school formula is not enough.

  • Author: Ben Horowitz
  • Publisher: Harper Business
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Publication date: March 4, 2014
  • Copyright: 2014
  • ISBN-13: 9780062273208
  • ISBN-10: 0062273205
  • Pages: 304
  • Book weight: 1.0 lb
  • Dimensions: 1.2 H × 9.0 L × 6.3 W inches