《The Hard Thing About Hard Things》简介：

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.

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《The Hard Thing About Hard Things》摘录：

每次我读到一本管理类或励志类书籍时，我总在想：“写得不错，可他们所说的还不是真正的难题。”真正的这些书存在的问题是，它们试图为无法可解的难题提供一个良方。但事实是，没有任何良方可以掌控错综复杂、变幻不定的局势，没有任何良方可以创建一家高新技术企业，没有任何良方可以带领一群人走出困境，没有任何良方可以制作出一系列热门金曲，任何 良方可以助你成为全国橄榄球联盟的四分卫，没有任何良方可以让你竞选上总统，也没有任何良方可以在你的生意衰落之时激励你的团队。这才是真正的难题所在——解决这些难题，没有任何公式套路可用。 我的许多朋友、顾问以及我职业生涯中一直陪伴在我左右的家人给了我很多启发。同时，嘻哈音乐和说唱音乐也对我大有启发，因为嘻哈艺术家们既渴望成为艺术大师，也渴望成为当红偶像，他们视自己为创业者，其音乐中的很多主题，例如竞争、赚钱、被误解等，能让我们对一些难题有更深刻的理解。 加入NetLabs公司对我而言是个极糟糕的决定。这家公司的经营者是安德烈·施瓦格尔——惠普公司的一位前高级主管，更重要的是，他是罗斯丽的丈夫。安德烈和罗斯丽是作为“专业管理团队”被风险资本家引进公司的。但不幸的是，二人对产品和技术知之甚少，一次又一次地使公司偏离正轨。我第一次明白创始人经营公司的重要性。 我在创业公司工作对我的家庭而言成了一个很大的负担，因为我需要花更多时间待在家里。 有一天，天气非常炎热，父亲过来看我们。我们用不起空调，在40多摄氏度的高温中，我和父亲坐在那里汗流浃背，三个孩子在哇哇大哭。 父亲转向我，说：“儿子，你知道什么东西便宜吗？” 我根本不清楚父亲在说什么，于是回答说：“不知道，是什么呢？” “鲜花。那你知道什么东西最贵吗？”他问。 我仍旧回答：“不知道，是什么呢？” 他说：“离婚。” 这番玩笑话——其实并非真的玩笑话——令我意识到我已经白白消耗了太多时间。直到那一刻...

《The Hard Thing About Hard Things》目录：

CONTENTS
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1: From Communist to Venture Capitalist
Chapter 2: “I Will Survive”
Chapter 3: This Time with Feeling
Chapter 4: When Things Fall Apart
The Struggle
CEOs Should Tell It Like It Is
The Right Way to Lay People Off
Preparing to Fire an Executive
Demoting a Loyal Friend
Lies That Losers Tell
Lead Bullets
Nobody Cares
Chapter 5: Take Care of the People, the Products, and the Profits—in That Order
A Good Place to Work
Why Startups Should Train Their People
Is It Okay to Hire People from Your Friend’s Company?
Why It’s Hard to Bring Big Company Execs into Little Companies
Hiring Executives: If You’ve Never Done the Job, How Do You Hire Somebody Good?
When Employees Misinterpret Managers
Management Debt
Management Quality Assurance
Chapter 6: Concerning the Going Concern
How to Minimize Politics in Your Company
The Right Kind of Ambition
Titles and Promotions
When Smart People Are Bad Employees
Old People
One-on-One
Programming Your Culture
Taking the Mystery Out of Scaling a Company
The Scale Anticipation Fallacy
Chapter 7: How to Lead Even When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going
The Most Difficult CEO Skill
The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage
Ones and Twos
Follow the Leader
Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO
Making Yourself a CEO
How to Evaluate CEOs
Chapter 8: First Rule of Entrepreneurship: There Are No Rules
Solving the Accountability vs. Creativity Paradox
The Freaky Friday Management Technique
Staying Great
Should You Sell Your Company?
Chapter 9: The End of the Beginning
Appendix: Questions for Head of Enterprise Sales Force
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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