Marketing Isn't Done By Computers, It's Done

The Reason Business Writing Is Horrible Is That People Are Afraid. Afraid To Say What They Mean, Because They Might Be Criticized For It. Afraid To Be Misunderstood, To Be Accused Of Saying What They Didn't Mean, Because They Might Be Criticized For It.

Successful People Are Successful For One Simple Reason: They Think About Failure Differently.

Blaming The System Is Soothing Because It Lets You Off The Hook. But When The System Is Broken, We Wonder Why You Were Relying In The System In The First Place.

I Find That It's Almost Essential To Fall In Love With An Idea To Invest The Time It Takes To Make It Good And Worth Sharing. And Then, The Hard Part: Deleting That Idea When It's Just Not What It Could Be. Too Often, Organizations Are Good At The First Part, But Struggle With The Second. And So We Defend Expired Business Models, Support The Status Quo And Have A Knee-jerk Inclination To Preserve What We've Got.

It's Almost Impossible To Have Fun Playing Ping Pong With Someone Who Doesn't Care, Won't Try Or Isn't Any Good.