The Hard Thing About Hard Things
In The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz, outlines what it takes to be a solid leader:
- Know what the organization needs and get the team to execute
- Be honest and communicate the plan when there are problems
- Train and care for your people
- Realize in leadership; there are pressures and responsibilities
- If firings are needed, be fast and fair
- If there’s an executive who needs to go, the CEO should take responsibility for the hiring mistake and ensure continuity
- Hire for strengths, mitigate weaknesses
- Create an environment of engagement
- Remove politics