In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match... them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That's the #1 reason this fails. And that's generally a good place to start: Here's where we are and here's what I didn't recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really really really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.