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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

Seth Godin

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
Keep starting until you finish.
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Finish Keep Starting
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
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
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Character Mind Squares
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
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
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

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