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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 31

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I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread

I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.

Communication, Writing, Ideas

"Interview: Seth Godin On How Often To Post To Your Blog". Interview with B.L. Ochman, January 12, 2009.

Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.

Giving, Leader, Productive

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

Great Work, Results, Tension

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

Running, Book, Thinking

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

People, Want, Gone

"Can Ordinary People Become Leaders?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. January 17, 2014.

Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.

Believe, People, Shortcuts

The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

Mature, Easier, Clear

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Art, Hate, Writing

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.141, Penguin

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

Artist, Entrepreneur

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

Tiny, Brilliant, Software

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.51, Penguin

More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

Entrepreneur, Innovation, Management

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

Art, Talking, Free Things

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future”, p.63, Hachette UK

We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.

Kindness, Interesting, Impatience

It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

Data, Easy, Expertise

Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.

Asking Why, Proud, Ships

If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

Jobs, School, Kids

"Back to (the wrong) school". sethgodin.typepad.com. September 05, 2011.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Art, Painting, Conclusion

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.221, Penguin

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

Responsibility, Rocks, Organization

"Is it time for a competitor to the Olympics?". sethgodin.typepad.com. February 19, 2014.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Artist, Age, Four

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.32, Penguin

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

Art, Trying, Figures

The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.

Passion, Confusion, Choices

You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish.

People, Giving, Foolish

An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

Organization, People, Honest

"The truth about the war for talent" by Seth Godin, seths.blog. September 18, 2013.

Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.

Garden, Careers, Personality

What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.

Motivational, Creative, Ships

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