The Hard Thing about Hard Thing: Building a Business When There are No Easy Answers

Excellent quality of the book.

This Book was purchased from uread book store, ( seller ) Great book , l love this book because it talks about hard part of business about which no one talks..... Purchase this book if you are interested in building a great business... This book don't give you a formula to build a business but the author shares his experience and wisdom.

Its a good book but let me set the expectation right: most of the book is geared towards managers/executives or people who are gearing towards becoming a CEO/manager and for that it is a great read. There is a lot of great information on what a leader should do in certain circumstances and that is the primary aim of the book. If you're getting started with entrepreneurship or you have a small startup, this might not be that useful, you might want to take this up at a later stage. Overall, not a bad read.

An exceptional book, written by someone rare to be brutally honest about the journey. Valuable inputs, and by far one of the easiest books I've read. I suppose the intent was simple and true, so the reading flowed smooth and clean.

Going through my own struggle to fulfill my dreams, I just picked up the book and read it. And as the author says hard things are hard, because there are no easy answers or recipes. It is an easy read, though can get boring in places, especially given it is also a management book. However, the author's stewardship Opsware is fascinating, its ups and downs, re-inventing itself, fighting and eventually selling it. For me the following are the important lessons: 1. I recently met an ex-colleague, whose founded and runs a business now valued over a couple of billion dollars. He like the author said that we just kept on going through tough times. As Winston Churchill also said, when in hell keep going. And as the author says, if you play long enough, you may get lucky. 2. Focus on exploiting your strengths more than in ensuring that there are no weaknesses 3. Sometimes the things that you are not doing should be the things that you should be doing. 4. Looking at worlds from different prisms, helps separate facts from perception or shall we say fiction. 5. In war time, just play to survive, kill and win i.e., know what needs to be done and focus on getting it done. Alignment of all with the strategy and tactics is very important. 6. If you are a thinker, get people who can get things done. My father used to say that most executive often knew how to get things done, however if they also knew what to do, then they would be more effective. 7. In business if you need to find an answer, you got to find it irrespective of odds of finding it. 8. Importance of training your people and integrating them. As i was old over a quarter of a century ago in an interview, you need to train your staff from day one. There are of course other lessons too, like when should you sell your company, how should organisation culture be deigned, how should a founder deal with simple things like title or avoid the organisation becoming political, etc. I am sure, depending on where you are and what your challenges are, you will have a different take. A good book to read for entreprenuers, for people charting their own courses. I give it my highest recommendation.

One of the best books to read on management and running a business ground up. Must read for everyone …pls do read

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