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Idea from The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Horowitz

Stop Being Too Positive

Stop Being Too Positive

Insight

Horowitz names the day he stopped being too positive as his single biggest personal improvement as CEO: sugarcoating problems keeps the people who can fix them from hearing the truth, and the team already knows anyway.

Source Context

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Related Concepts

trust | leadership | clarity

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