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Do Something!

Voltaire, one of the leading figures of the En...

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Think back to your days in school (or for those of you still there, recall last month!) You know what was worse than handing in a crappy paper? Not handing in anything at all. We’ve all been there – we have great ideas, we spend a fair bit of time doing research and we come with lots of new, interesting choices about where to take our discussion.  In fact, sometimes we have so many good choices that we get hung up trying to pick the perfect one and end up missing our deadline or handing in a rush job.  Good bye brilliance; hello remedial English.

Business is the same way and I’ve found the digital business in particular to suffer from Voltaire’s favorite enemy:  perfection. Continue reading

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Relegation

Club Atlético River Plate

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How many of you are familiar with the concept of relegation?  In sport we see it most notably in international club soccer, where the bottom teams in a league are sent down to a lower division and the top performers in that lower division rise up to play in the higher tier.  Obviously, there are financial implications and clubs that are built on one set of economic premises based on playing in a top league often suffer severe hardships when they are relegated.

What got me thinking about this was a note from my buddy Oz about River Plate‘s relegation in Argentine football.  One of the oldest clubs in the world, this is the first time they’ve been out of the top division since…well…never.  This is the first time.  So what does this have to do with you? Continue reading

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The Smartest Guy In The Room

I went to an event where I hoped to learn something.  It concerned a topic about which I’m often asked by clients and is an area that concerns my practice because it concerns them.  There were a lot of others attending the event and I knew quite a few of them.  I also knew that they, like me, had a fair amount of expertise on the subject matter and were there to expand that knowledge.

The presentation started out well – the fellow giving the talk was really good on his feet.  He kept the mood light which is always a good thing when the topic is kind of heavy and he engaged the group right from the start.  Unfortunately. it was all downhill from there and let me explain why. Continue reading

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