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Craig McCaw said once regarding Jim Barksdale’s contribution to McCaw Cellular: ”He took a great mergers-and-acquisitions company and made it into a great operating company.” 25iq.com/2014/05/31/a-d… It takes many skills to create a great business. No one has all of them.
"Ultimately, the team you build is the company you build.”
"Rabois developed a simple metaphor for the role of a COO at an early-stage company: an ER doctor. Just like in the ER, there’s always something broken at a start-up, it’s incessantly chaotic". firstround.com/review/Keith-R…
"Rabois developed a simple metaphor for the role of a COO at an early-stage company: an ER doctor. Just like in the ER, there’s always something broken at a start-up, it’s incessantly chaotic". firstround.com/review/Keith-R…
Some founders are great operators while others are not. When people describe a great operator they will sometimes say that she or he “makes the trains run on time." Jim Barksdale: “The management of time is just as important as the management of money.” 
"In the past employees just needed to do the next thing right. Culture didn’t matter so much. Now we want people to do the next right thing. A rule book isn't going to solve that problem. You need your culture to make thousands of decisions the right way.” google.com/amp/s/25iq.com…
