Seth Godin

What Really Happens With Idea Adoption

January 14, 2013

Seth Godin has a good post today on idea adoption. He calls it you’re not a slot, you choose a slot. It’s an important point:  Individuals choose a slot based on what sort of leadership or risk or followership behavior makes them happy right now. Early adopters and nerds like to go first. But some people [...]

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Thinking of Quitting? Don’t Let Survivor Bias Ruin Your Life

May 1, 2012

You may have missed Alyson Shontell‘s piece asking an answering the question When You Should Quit Being An Entrepreneur? I marked it when it first appeared earlier this year, then left it in the back burner. If you’re an entrepreneur, especially if you’re engaged in a startup and not yet rolling strong and on your own, [...]

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Turn the Negative of Worry into the Positive of Planning

October 25, 2011

Worrying is a waste of time, stress, and effort. It ties knots in your soul. Forget the worry. Turn that energy into a positive: planning. I just read Seth Godin’s brilliant small post, from last weekend, asking In When is it okay to start worrying? With apologies to Seth for quoting the whole thing (but [...]

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Planning Is Telling Stories and Making Them Come True

February 17, 2011

You could call this synchronicity. A few years ago I was reading Seth Godin’s All Marketers Are Liars at about the same time that I caught Harvey Cox talking about the power of stories as truth telling in all major religions. I paused to think about the importance of stories in so many different modes [...]

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3 Posts on Stuff We Know But Frequently Forget

February 4, 2011

Does this happen to you? You read something, love it, realize you sort of knew it, but this author puts it in a new context, new light, or new list, so that it’s very useful to you just to see it again? I found three of those this week in three blog posts: Donna Fenn [...]

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On Confusing Numbers with Truth

December 29, 2010

In Folk wisdom and proofiness on his blog yesterday, Seth Godin concludes: Data is not information, and confusing numbers with truth can help you make some bad decisions. Well said.

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10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog

July 21, 2010

Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert,  marketing manager of Klout.com. So I asked her this: “What do I do with my [...]

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Goodbye Office Hello Metrics, Tracking & Accountability

June 30, 2010

In his recent post Goodbye to the office, Seth Godin list a lot of good reasons for working virtually, remotely, or whatever you want to call that. He summarizes: “If we were starting this whole office thing today, it’s inconceivable we’d pay the rent/time/commuting cost to get what we get. I think in ten years [...]

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I Think Seth’s Slick is, Sadly, Too Optimistic

June 18, 2010

I don’t think the world is as easy to deal with as Seth Godin suggests in slick, posted on his blog a few hours ago. He says that now even small-time individuals can have big-time production values, “gloss for not much money,” by using Kinko’s and Moo cards and so forth.

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Seth Godin on Rethinking Business Plans

May 26, 2010

It’s about time that business writers, assorted experts, entrepreneurs, academic and the rest start focusing on the huge damaging and wasteful misunderstanding that most of us have contributed to: that completely out-of-date idea that a business plan is a document, done once, related to raising money. So I’m delighted to see Seth Godin jumping onto [...]

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