“ An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down. ”
Throwing your heart into something is great, but when any one thing becomes all that you stand for, you're vulnerable to an identity crisis when you pivot to a Plan B.
~ Reid Hoffman
With the consumer Internet, if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've launched too late. Everyone wants their product to be shiny, great, and revolutionary, so they take too long in the development cycle to build this really shiny thing, when in fact time really matters.
Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
A few of the managers we spoke with for this book worried that the tour of duty framework might give employees permission to leave. But permission is not yours to give or to withhold, and believing you have that power is simply a self-deception that leads to a dishonest relationship with your employees. Employees don't need your permission to switch companies, and if you try to assert that right, they'll simply make their move behind your back.
