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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.

Seth Godin

The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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Cows Keys Purple
If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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Marketing Success Waiting
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
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
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Believe Long May
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own People
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Ability Art Book Dot Teacher
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work

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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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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