Email this ? Subscribe to this feed ? Share on Facebook,Steve Jobs reports today that Apple is selling an iPad every three seconds And then, at some point, you realize you're spending your best energy on optimization, not on creation,We see successful musicians and writers do this all the time
The imperfect ones, the ones with a clearly evident solution, well, if they were important, you've solved them already,Perhaps some people will insist that there are jobs where no humanity is possible Luke's was the hottest ad agency in the UK, they made the decision not to grow--in order to take a new client, they had to fire an old one,Then, when money is worth less to you, you can pay it back
Rule of thumb: being first helps in the short run,Thoughtful conversation, dissent and disagreement are an essential part of growth A little later, when we're more mature, we might define winning as getting what we want at the expense of someone else,Leverage multiplies the power of your business because with leverage, every dollar you make in profit is multiplied
But what about the story you tell yourself?,Launching is risky business, and one way to diminish that risk in a world of scarcity and market noise is to go big Anonymous business clients means you don't have to answer the phone when it's easier to send it to voice mail,Bad behavior and irrational decisions are almost always caused by fear
Most of us, though, care about alert people making insightful decisions,The hardest part of being patriotic to your cause is rooting on the whole even when it's easier to be a cynical critic A demagogue cares so much about winning that he'd rather wreck the system itself than lose,This is wrongheaded, short-term and irrational
