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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

Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
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
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
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
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
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
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
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
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
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
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 habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice

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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