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

Seth Godin

Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!
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Marketing Success Waiting
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Essence Marketing People
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
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
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
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success

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