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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.

Seth Godin

Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
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
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise Way
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
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
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity

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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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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