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The Management Book That Did Not Lie to Me
Most management books describe leadership as a series of thoughtful decisions made by calm people with good information. Ben Horowitz describes something closer to the truth: decisions made fast, with incomplete data, while people are scared and the outcome is uncertain. I keep this book on my desk because it is the only one I have found that prepares you for the part of leadership no one talks about.


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Horowitz is most useful when you are in the middle of something difficult.


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In good times you should do things that would be hard to do in bad times.


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Reading The Hard Thing About Hard Things
5 Best frame
5 Brutally honest
4 Grounded
4 Essential

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This is not a book about success. It is a book about surviving the parts of building a company that are so difficult most founders do not talk about them honestly.


:POLL
Has a business book ever made you feel genuinely seen as someone in a hard situation?
Yes, this one or something similar to it
Occasionally but rarely in the management genre
Never, most business books are too sanitized to do this
I have not read in this area yet