Being a good company doesn’t matter when things go well, but it can be the difference between life and death when things go wrong. Things always go w… - Ben Horowitz

Being a good company is an end in itself.

It’s good to anticipate growth, but it’s bad to overanticipate growth.

There is no such thing as a great executive. There is only a great executive for a specific company at a specific point in time.

Perhaps the CEO’s most important operational responsibility is designing and implementing the communication architecture for her company. The architecture might include the organizational design, meetings, processes, email, yammer, and even one-on-one meetings with managers and employees. Absent a well-designed communication architecture, information and ideas will stagnate, and your company will degenerate into a bad place to work. While it is quite possible to design a great communication architecture without one-on-one meetings, in most cases one-on-ones provide an excellent mechanism for information and ideas to flow up the organization and should be part of your design.