triple your rate of failure

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triple your rate of failure

View Comments 10 September 2009

just found an awesome post on failure.  as of this year, i have come to love the idea of failure because i believe it is so critical to success.  anyway, this idea begs you to triple your rate of failure.  sound dramatic?  i believe in all of it.  here are a few of my posts on failure [...]

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your work week just got reduced to 0

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your work week just got reduced to 0

View Comments 10 September 2009

blogger and now author, jonathan mead just released his new ebook, the zero hour work week.  of course, the title is a clear play on tim ferris’s four hour work week , which gets you to his big idea: when you do what you love, work no longer feels like work. his 60 page ebook (did i mention it [...]

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we need you to lead us

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we need you to lead us

View Comments 02 September 2009

the ideas in seth godin's newest book have become gospel for marketers and leaders alike. this video hits on many of the core themes.

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surprise and delight

View Comments 26 August 2009

love seth’s quick post.  do you want to surprise and/or delight people?  you should want to do both!  most people and most brands choose to do neither.  when is the last time your customers, interviewers, or boss was surprised and delighted by you?  if you’re not doing it, it’s a good chance your competition is.

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extraordinary people don’t just think

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extraordinary people don’t just think

View Comments 25 August 2009

seth godin talks about how generating ideas is the easy part, it's making it happen that is the difficult part.

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the new :60 pitch

View Comments 24 August 2009

the 60 second pitch has apparently been reduced to :15.  the idea that the time you have to get someone to pay attention to you has been cut into a quarter of it’s original time should be no surprise in today’s attention economy where time is a scarce commodity.

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