The days where I sat down and did what looked like work were my least effective days,Does Starbucks tell a different story from McDonald's? Of course they do If you have a Squidoo lens, I hope you'll check this out,And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance
Now there are people who start with the bad behavior and the affectations, hoping that it will be seen as a sign of insight and talent,That's the obvious path of outbound marketing But ��business�� is no longer the same as ��factory��,Once you're willing to lie to yourself, you're also willing to cheat at golf, and after that, it's all downhill
The choice one needs to make, though is this:,If you could do one thing, make one choice, it should be this: make the room too small They know how to get a crowd on its feet, every time,It means:Take in a tenant in your spare bedroomCarpool to workSkip vacation this year
But if it earns attention and respect over time, if it wins over the skeptical, then you've really created something,You can compromise your packaging, try to appeal to everyone, muddy your brand promise and hide your story When the game machine platform of choice switches from Sony to xBox to Nintendo, etc,Which one commands a higher premium for its houses?
I've worked my butt off for him for years, showing up even on holidays, and now,and making a billion dollars sounds like fun More important, the conversations that are being generated are just what we hoped,Go check out the track record of the loudest believers in your industry
Josh Bernoff is a generous guy with an unusual hobby,Find an emotion that needs social approval in order to be easily expressed Wandering around is an aimless waste of time,Here's what we talked about, organized by general theme and topic
Now, using a publisher is a choice, not a necessity,My friend Patti Jo is an extraordinary teacher and tutor Imagine contacting 3,000 high schools and finding 500 willing to join together and agree to act as a buying cartel,Don't let popular spreadsheets be in charge of the way you look
Question: how would knowing that the planet would disappear in 10,000 years change your typical day?,Everyone is a journalist, of course, but just a few do it for a living So, that's what we're experimenting with on Linchpin,If it's not good enough for you as a consumer, why should it be good enough for you as a marketer?
Carole Mallory was Norman Mailer's mistress,A vibrant party at SXSW can create buzz that gives your salespeople entree to important meetings Can you imagine this sort of thing happening at a store? Or in a sleepy government office?,I want to urgently and persistently change the way you do your work
Concrete Wave wishes to remain a ball bearing �C small, hard to find and continually in the state of being polished,It's about the kind of work that requires us to push ourselves, not just punch the clock It used to be that all emails or whispered hallway discussions were 'off the record,He never said things to make people happy, didn't sugar coat his point of view and he didn't compromise
For big brands and marketers with significant budgets, the internet represents a loss of leverage,Connect people who are proximate geographically Our software enables you to find data and trends that no one else can find,Zig taught me the difference between the first two
He can't be a man because he doesn't smoke [syncopated pause] the same cigarette as me,Tom Peters told me that he��s grateful that he has flown 5 million miles but never crashed all of these tactics are part of the same strategy: ideas that spread, win,AT&T can invest and fix their wireless network
