{"id":3859,"date":"2010-03-26T00:56:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T05:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2010-03-26T00:56:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T05:56:20","slug":"best-read-sentence-the-plan-a-quasi-blog-the-hard-part-of-managing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/26\/best-read-sentence-the-plan-a-quasi-blog-the-hard-part-of-managing\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Read Sentence :: The .Plan: A Quasi-Blog: The hard part of managing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>You can develop an absolutely incorrect perception of yourself as a  great manager when, in fact, you haven\u2019t implemented anything. You  haven\u2019t fired anybody. You haven\u2019t introduced a product. You haven\u2019t  supported a customer. All you\u2019ve done is make spreadsheets and  PowerPoint presentations.<br \/>\nYou can also throw venture capital into  this pile. Going into venture capital straight out of school is a big  mistake because entrepreneurs start sucking up to you and ask you stuff  you know nothing about \u2014 like how to run a company.<br \/>\n<strong>Jobs for  college graduates should make them gain knowledge in at least one of  these three areas: how to make something, how to sell something or how  to support something.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8211;Guy  Kawasaki on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/21\/business\/21corner.html\">the  difference between recommending and doing<\/a>. HT: Alex Tsai<\/span><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesjchoi.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/hard-part-of-managing.html\">The .Plan: A Quasi-Blog: The hard part of managing<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can develop an absolutely incorrect perception of yourself as a great manager when, in fact, you haven\u2019t implemented anything. You haven\u2019t fired anybody. You haven\u2019t introduced a product. You haven\u2019t supported a customer. All you\u2019ve done is make spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. You can also throw venture capital into this pile. Going into venture &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/26\/best-read-sentence-the-plan-a-quasi-blog-the-hard-part-of-managing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Read Sentence :: The .Plan: A Quasi-Blog: The hard part of managing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read","category-best-sentence","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}