Happy Wednesday! I wanted to share my notes directly from Ben Horowitz's book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Building A Business When There Are No Easy Answers.

The book has been a tremendous resource so far, and I wish I had found it earlier. His chapter titled, "How to Lead?", I found particularly enlightening.

So What makes me people want to follow a leader?

3 Key Traits:

1. The ability to articulate the vision
2. The right kind of ambition
3. The ability to achieve the vision

1) The Ability to Articulate the Vision

• Can the leader articulate a vision that’s interesting, dynamic, and compelling?
• More important, can the leader do this when things fall apart?
• IE: Steve Jobs got the employees of Apple to buy into his vision when the company was weeks away from bankruptcy.

2) The Right Kind of Ambition

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• For some reason there’s a huge misperception in our society that a prerequisite for becoming a CEO is to be selfish, ruthless, and callous.
• In fact the opposite is true.
• The first thing any good CEO must do is get really great people to work for her or him.
• Truly great leaders create an environment where the employees feel that the CEO cares more about the employees than she cares about herself.
• In this kind of environment, an amazing thing happens:
  o A large number of employees believe it’s their company and behave accordingly!
• A truly great CEO would happily sacrifice his own economics, fame, glory, and rewards for his employees

3) The Ability to Achieve The Vision

• The third leg of the leadership stool is competence.
• If I buy into the vision, and believe that the leader cares about me, do I think she can actually achieve the vision?
• “Will I follow her into the jungle with no map forward or back and trust that she will get me out of there”