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Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Seth Godin

Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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Marketing Success Waiting
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
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
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People
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
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress

Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

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Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

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