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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.

Seth Godin

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
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Art Ideas Leadership
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
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
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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Dead Ends Ends Situation
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect

You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.

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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.

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