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Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.

Seth Godin

There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Changing Differences Life Matters
I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
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Believe Games Rules Thinking
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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Jester Needs People Roles
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Business One Perfect Wise

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