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Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Seth Godin

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
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
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
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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Ideas Tribute Two Years
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy
So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Aim Bother Catchy
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry

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