Business & Money · Article or course
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Practical leadership and crisis-management advice for startup founders and CEOs.
A candid business management book written by Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz. It focuses on the severe, stressful challenges of running a company that business schools typically skip, drawn directly from Horowitz's experience navigating Loudcloud and Opsware through near-fatal crises.
What it's for
- Navigate company leadership during critical downturns and existential crises
- Manage the psychological pressures and stress of being a CEO
- Handle difficult personnel decisions like demoting executives or laying off staff
Features
- Analysis of wartime versus peacetime CEO leadership dynamics
- Direct advice on firing friends, hiring executives, and handling layoffs
- Techniques for managing internal company politics and organizational culture
- Candid accounts of surviving the dot-com crash and market crashes
Pricing
Paid. $32.50 hardcover list price (available in ebook and audiobook formats)
Details
- Type
- Article or course
- Category
- Business & Money
- Topic
- Startup Leadership
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- other
- For
- Startup founders, CEOs, engineering leaders, and aspiring entrepreneurs.
- Alternative to
- High Output Management, Zero to One
- Tags
- startups, management, leadership, books, entrepreneurship
Why it was saved
- @askmichia: Delivers unfiltered management lessons and war stories on navigating high-stakes problems with no easy answers.
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