The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Book Club Andreea Roșca
Autor Ben Horowitzen Limba Engleză Hardback – mar 2014
Subliniem faptul că The Hard Thing about Hard Things nu este un manual teoretic, ci un raport de pe frontul antreprenoriatului tehnologic. Experiența lui Ben Horowitz ca CEO la Opsware, companie vândută ulterior către Hewlett-Packard pentru 1,6 miliarde de dolari, conferă acestui text o autoritate rar întâlnită în literatura de profil. Considerăm că valoarea fundamentală a lucrării rezidă în onestitatea brutală cu care autorul abordează „lucrurile grele” despre care puțini vorbesc: cum este să concediezi oameni apropiați, cum să gestionezi prăbușirea moralului echipei sau cum să navighezi incertitudinea când ești la un pas de faliment. Dacă Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups v-a oferit cadrul teoretic și studiile de caz academice, această carte oferă instrumentele practice și mentalitatea necesară pentru a supraviețui în tranșee. Recomandăm acest volum ca pe o piesă centrală în opera lui Horowitz; în timp ce lucrarea sa ulterioară, What You Do Is Who You Are, se concentrează pe arhitectura culturii organizaționale, The Hard Thing about Hard Things rămâne manifestul său despre reziliența individuală a liderului. Stilul narativ este alert, punctat de umor negru și versuri rap care servesc drept ancore memorabile pentru lecții dure de management. Spre deosebire de alte titluri din secțiunea similară, cum este Lost and Founder, care explorează parcursul emoțional al fondatorului, Horowitz se concentrează pe deciziile executive critice și pe execuția sub presiune extremă. Este o analiză pragmatică a psihologiei de CEO, oferind soluții acolo unde cursurile de MBA se opresc.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0062273205
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 164 x 235 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Harper Collins Publ. USA
Colecția HarperBusiness
Seriile Book Club Andreea Roșca, Best business books of all time, Recomandări cărți Ecommerce - Școala de vară GPeC 2019, Cărți de gestionare a crizei
Locul publicării:New York
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Despre autor
Benjamin Abraham Horowitz este un renumit om de afaceri american, investitor și autor, considerat unul dintre cei mai influenți lideri din Silicon Valley. A cofondat firma de capital de risc Andreessen Horowitz alături de Marc Andreessen, devenind un punct de referință pentru investițiile în tehnologie. Anterior, a servit ca președinte și CEO al companiei de software Opsware (fostă Loudcloud), experiență care a stat la baza filosofiei sale de management axată pe pragmatism și reziliență. Expertiza sa este dublată de o capacitate unică de a sintetiza lecții istorice și culturale în strategii moderne de business.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.
In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology companies to offer essential advice and practical wisdom for navigating the toughest problems business schools don't cover. His blog has garnered a devoted following of millions of readers who have come to rely on him to help them run their businesses. A lifelong rap fan, Horowitz amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs and tells it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, from cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.
His advice is grounded in anecdotes from his own hard-earned rise—from cofounding the early cloud service provider Loudcloud to building the phenomenally successful Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, both with fellow tech superstar Marc Andreessen (inventor of Mosaic, the Internet's first popular Web browser). This is no polished victory lap; he analyzes issues with no easy answers through his trials, including
- demoting (or firing) a loyal friend;
- whether you should incorporate titles and promotions, and how to handle them;
- if it's OK to hire people from your friend's company;
- how to manage your own psychology, while the whole company is relying on you;
- what to do when smart people are bad employees;
- why Andreessen Horowitz prefers founder CEOs, and how to become one;
- whether you should sell your company, and how to do it.
Filled with Horowitz's trademark humor and straight talk, and drawing from his personal and often humbling experiences, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures.
Recenzii
Descriere
Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.
While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.
Filled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz's personal and often humbling experiences.
Notă biografică
Ben Horowitz is the cofounder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley?based venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading technology companies. The firm's investments include Airbnb, GitHub, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. Previously he was cofounder and CEO of Opsware, formerly Loudcloud, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007. Horowitz writes about his experiences and insights from his career as a computer science student, software engineer, cofounder, CEO, and investor in a blog that is read by nearly ten million people. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Fortune, the Economist, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others. Horowitz lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Felicia.