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There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.

Seth Godin

The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
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
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Art Ideas Leadership
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Change Inspirational Inspiring
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’
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Leadership Mean Teamwork
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
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
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
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success

There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.

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