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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.

Seth Godin

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
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
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
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
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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Citizens Thinking Watches
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise

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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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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