Today’s Seth Godin was particularly noteworthy for lots of reasons. When Mr. Godin speaks about this issue, unlike Suzie “The Harpie” Orman, he has a different way of saying it that makes it more relevant. Nicely done, Seth. BTW, Seth Godin’s guest post Don’t Even Try to Get a Job! done for WWDS is still [...]
Seth Godin’s “Frustration Decade” and Me.
Posted in January 2nd, 2010
Seth Godin’s first entry for 2010 is a wake up call for everyone who lives an engaged life. He sees two major trends happening in this new decade. In a strange way, I find this piece wildly motivational. I am wondering if you do as well? Why do think this motivates me? (Here are the [...]
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Party Crashers–If I Had Only Known How Easy It Was To Get In, I’d a Been There.
Posted in December 4th, 2009
by admin in Work-related
I hear some of the folks in Washington were talking about creating jobs and it just made me cringe. Obviously, out here in the private sector one does not “create” a job. We create businesses that solve problems. Some of those businesses require people to run them, service accounts, and build stuff. While there are [...]
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Brett Favre, Nick Corcodilos and Seth Godin: Connect the Dots
Posted in September 29th, 2009
You most likely saw the last minute or so of the Minnesota Vikings-San Francisco 49′ers game. You know, the one where Brett Favre threw a touchdown pass with two seconds left. Two seconds. It. Was. Amazing. I used this game, and mostly the heroics of Brett Favre to write a blog post for US NEWS [...]
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Math, Schmath
Posted in August 22nd, 2009
by admin in Daily Wisdom
JUST when I was thinking a similar thing, the Seth Godin goes ahead and runs this post. I really must get to the internet faster. By Seth Godin, in his blog, 8/22/09 Simple quiz for smart marketers: Let’s say your goal is to reduce gasoline consumption. And let’s say there are only two kinds of [...]
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How To Work With People Who Are Better Than You
Posted in May 20th, 2009
by admin in Daily Wisdom
Seth Godin writes today about a common problem (Clean Sheet of Paper) facing creative types, business leaders, consultants and project managers. He says there are two ways, generally, to assign and manage projects. The first is to use your experience to select the best possible partner and then, with amazing discipline step back, and allow [...]
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Seth Speaks
Posted in February 26th, 2009
by admin in Work-related
From Seth Godin’s blog today: Three things you need if you want more customers If you want to grow, you need new customers. And if you want new customers, you need three things: 1. A group of possible customers you can identify and reach. 2. A group with a problem they want to solve using [...]
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Hitchhiking on Seth and Sully
Posted in February 3rd, 2009
by admin in Work-related
Random catch up today. 1. Did you read my man Seth Godin’s post today, called Grave New World? The first line belongs in the New Bartlett’s. Seth wrote, “Creativity loves a problem but it hates a lousy audience.” Priceless. It’s easy being a lousy audience to creative ideas, harder to be a great one. I [...]
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What Seth Just Said
Posted in January 12th, 2009
by admin in Work-related
Ed. note: Seth Godin writes the best marketing blog in the world. Daily, he simply nails it. If you are like me, when I read his stuff, I find myself nodding my head and saying, ‘Yep, what Seth just said.” I thought it would be a good exercise to take his subject and expound on [...]
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What Seth Just Said
Posted in January 11th, 2009
by admin in Work-related
Ed. Note: Seth Godin is a marketing guru and well-known author who writes the most popular marketing blog in the world. I read his blog nearly every day and nearly always find myself saying “What Seth just said.” Still, from time to time, I might have an added thought or comment to add. So, I [...]
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