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Is being #1 and being a leader the same thing. I don’t think so…

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If you don’t know David Seah’s Printable CEO, head over there and get acquainted. He also came up with a magnificient Compact Calendar you ought to check out. I’ve been following David’s work for four years now. It just keeps getting better and better. It’s fascinating work. Beautiful design, thoughful productivity forms, and insightful blogger. Winning combination. David’s latest creation is a Groundhog Day Resolutions Tracking system (David doesn’t do New Year’s Resolutions anymore). It’s a motivator-productivity booster-focus system all [...]

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Constantly seeking feedback from your customers is a great way to learn how to market your business more effectively. If you’ve never done this before, do it immediately as it is one of the best ways to discover what you do that actually differentiates you from your competition. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve worked with a small business that had no idea what its competitive advantage was until we heard it right from the mouths of happy [...]

Categories: John Jantsch, Marketing
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It’s not about changing to something you’re not. It’s about becoming more of who you are. It’s not about going from a square to a circle. It’s about going from a square to a cube.

Categories: Emotion, Martin Messier
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I’m currently reading “Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together” by William Isaacs. This is a very, very powerful book. Notably, in the introduction, Isaacs shares the following: “The capacity for talking together constituted the foundation for democracy, far more fundamental than voting. As one ancient Greek philosopher noted, ‘When voting started, democracy ended.’” After reading this, all of a sudden, I could see.