Recognize when your company is in peacetime or wartime and adjust your management style accordingly. In peacetime, encourage creativity and broad-based contributions; in wartime, ensure strict alignment to the mission and make decisive, sometimes harsh, decisions to navigate through crises. | Ben Horowitz | The Hard Thing About Hard Things

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Adapt Management Style to the Situation

Recognize when your company is in peacetime or wartime and adjust your management style accordingly. In peacetime, encourage creativity and broad-based contributions; in wartime, ensure strict alignment to the mission and make decisive, sometimes harsh, decisions to navigate through crises.

-- Ben Horowitz