Ben Horowitz claims that he’s made every leadership mistake in the book—and that is precisely why he’s qualified to advise startup-company founders on running and managing brand-new enterprises.
A cofounder of venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, he’s taken early stakes in Facebook Inc.FB -7.46% and Airbnb Inc., the online rental marketplace now reportedly valued at around $10 billion, and has become Silicon Valley’s go-to guy for coaching product-focused founders on leadership.
via Q&A: Secrets of CEO Whisperer Ben Horowitz – At Work – WSJ.
Make sure you whisper that the solution to any business problem is NOT layoffs.
Too many CEO’s think that layoffs solve any business problem.