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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

Seth Godin

If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Character Mind Squares
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
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
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

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