How to manage
In his lecture How to manage Ben Horowitz introduces two ideas that stuck with me. First one is the need to take all possible points of view into consideration when making a decision. You have to add up every employee's view and then incorporate that into your own view. Otherwise your management decisions are going to have weird side effects and potentially dangerous consequences - Ben Horowitz Before you make and important decision like promoting someone or handing out high profile tasks to an employee you must look at how it affects the business as a whole. You might feel like this person is best suited for the job/task but that isn't the only thing to consider. Giving this person more responsibility might impact other employees negatively, production could in fact decrease if the team would feel frustrated by the move. The second builds on top of that idea, the idea of giving someone a raise. Horowitz feels it's important to create a process that is transparent a