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settle for people not taking down my vision. People who kind of give me a look like "what makes you think you can do it?". I have a girlfriend who I love dearly who even goes to the point of asking that question in just about every flavor there is. I call her my challenger.
For any of you holdi...
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we take work for the sake of work.
I want all of Rubicon-ites to have a real joy and passion for what we do. The people who are here have to really love and really get strategy at the deepest level. I want our customers to get a group of people who like this strategy stuff enough to keep doing it ...
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n athlete you must be committed.”
and this one also:
“Commitment is a state you find yourself in when the gun goes off."
I love the running metaphor as I get back into the whole fitness thing and start thinking of that part of my life differently.
But the reason the id...
Blackberry's been running a great campaign.
It started with a banner ad.
The banner asked you to share with Blackberry "why you loved it".
From there, you could read other stories of why people loved their blackberry. There are lots and lots of stories . And you can learn more about your ...
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y are the creators who innovate what will get made next. Many of the best-of-the-best are focused on web and community based applications. Those that love industrial design all work at Ideo or Apple. Most of them are not at Microsoft.
And I thought this was insightful for those doing marketing...
A major business magazine which has a gear section asked me to contribute ideas. I am so pleased as I love, love, love this section. And it got me thinking, "if I only had to choose 1 or 2 things, what would they be?"
I came up with more than 1 or 2 items across a spectrum of cool tools and gadg...
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reason to refer me and a reason to buy us again. I don’t have to worry about replacing that customer. I just need to keep the ones that already love it.
5. How you use market power. Here’s the thing. A company once they really start making it sometimes try and figure out how to &ldqu...
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s taste departs from the mainstream somewhere, and the more we find new options, new alternatives, the more we find things we like. Or rather, we LOVE. Our choices are expanded and by having more choices, when we make a selection, we have the ability to connect to that choice deeply. What is consid...
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e outta business. And I'm not outta business because doing this stuff at a practical, operating level is incredibly fun and challenging. Geez, I just love my job.
Thanks, Joel and Mike for the humor and the fun of working with both of you.
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uralee, Curt, Marsha and many others have been contributing to said pile-o-books. Oh, and I have too.
But it got me thinking about books. And, my love of them. So wanted to share these great sites for us book-o-philes...
Selfari
Connect myspace-style to reveal movie quotes and favorite ...
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rrent business situations. My CEO group, now called Vistage , is my best source advisors today. Before that, i turned to many, many folks. Mostly my lovely husband . Depending on what is the current challenge of the day (HR issues, capital needs, growth strategies, sales and marketing ideas for a ...
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thing that happened to my career and the one thing that forced to redesign of my work life. Getting fired is a dreaded thing -- almost like losing a loved one in one's life.
But it happens. It happened to me. It happened to one of my company's clients recently, in one of the more awkward busine...
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brutal". But the reality is that you never wondered if she said one thing to you and another thing to others. If you got an audience, you got a read. Love that.
3. Fire people you need to fire. At Autodesk, I once inherited a group as I was asked to revamp their charter and related strategies. T...
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l results confirm what the early results show) that I "will live". I am returned to my life flooded with gratitude for that which I have, a refreshed love for the life, and relationships, and gifts I have.
Let me not forget that health is never something to be taken for granted. Not just the abs...
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an activitist approach to life. They almost always have a general sense of optimization because they believe in the power of good, they like people, love to orchestrate ideas and they tend to be (but not always) great at building relationships. Interesting statistic: 4 in 10 have a connection to th...
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difference is that most bloggers are not (otherwise) customer facing... and they reach a much larger audience than the typical employee.
I always love the story (from many years ago) about Schneider National trucking and its dress code for truck drivers. The rationale was that for most of their ...
I'm amazed at how much people love to listen to real customers.
At Web 2.0, the longest line for the microphone wasn't to ask a question to Ray Ozzie, Jeff Bezos, Bruce Chizen (who, notably, had no questions asked of him), or other industry leaders or innovators.
Nope. The longest line at t...
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ve, to give up, to adopt. Transformation happens when people follow.
"A leader's job is to see possibilities in people, in ideas," says Carly. I love it. It's inspiring and certainly describes most successful CEOs I know. And what wasn't said? It's that all leaders must also possess a clear ass...
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ul behavior.
People often think they can work with some people and not others. But I'm not sure that's true.
Dislike and like -- at extremes, love and hate -- cannot live in the same heart. Think of the happiest persons you know. They probably don't love just their spouses and kids, and hate...
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lifetime value of customer”. Anyone can sell a Trek bike, but to a Valentine’s day customer, you might say he sold an expression of love. To a father of a six year old, it’s a rite of passage. To a well-heeled baby boomer client, the bike is a symbol of success. He’s selling ...
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an can focus on the things that matter. For me that list includes those things that allow each of us to operate from our gifts, to give and play, and love the things we get a chance to create and the people we get a chance to co-create with.
Let's get over ourselves, people. We don't need a fanc...
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most amazing creatures on earth. It’s through them and with them that any platform becomes interesting. Back when I worked at Apple, I fell in love with a simple screen saver. It was the first of its kind and it made my screen look like a fish tank. Way cool. Besides the coolness effect, deve...
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models and they are vulnerable. I call them dinosaurs with some affection. They are the big guys who have built the packaged application business. I love them and have several as clients but man have they got to adapt to this new paradigm, and fast.
The second is related to the customer valu...
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problems with a combination of business and market strategies to help our clients win markets. Thus, my team is passionate about solving problems, we love to design breakthrough ideas, and our ability to tussle over things to get the best idea behind the scenes is legendary.
5. Entrepreneurs ne...
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ook at your products with the same eager anticipation as they once did? Have your customers stayed "married" to you? Would you consider them still in love—or waiting it out until someone better comes along?
If you're like most of the tech professionals we know, you can answer those question...
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you'll get stomped out like a bug. So it's important to know the overall market size, and then the piece you can own.
5. Return Customers.
I love the fact that the first customer I served in 1999 still works with Rubicon. That's a sign that we haven't lost our ability to deliver what we say...
Scott Adams of Dilbert fame would love this word.
"Neko-Neko"* is an indonesian word for someone with a novel idea that actually makes the situation worst.
Look around you, do you spot one? Are you one? I hope not.
Thoughts on who we should be...
Be a positive force that draws out t...
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me. He had fun and played and engaged with other people and other things than what we do together.
I know he sees my eyes telling him how much I love seeing him and that I missed him. And even if it did feel like days, I was back. I used to pray that I would have this feeling when I became a mo...
Paper + Organization -- ways to capture ideas... Love it!
I'm always looking for new paper and organization books. When I give one to a friend, I'm saying something to the affect of, I care. Because ideas are like gems, and I'm saying, go get some gems. Or better, find our own gems within you. A...
Rubicon has a defense practice, which we would love to call "Fighting With 4 Swords: The Art of Competitive Play". Unfortunately, that's too long to put on our business card along with our other 3 practices (define, design, optimize). So instead, we get to use the long description when writing arti...
Ever see those banners that say 'we love our customers'. Do you ever believe them?
Customer relationships are more than good intentions. It means setting the intention to pamper good customers and investing in the technology and processes to make a positive, intelligent and (nicely done) persist...
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s, sounds and sights to life. Each story was a series of people going through their life effectively existing but not really living. And without much love and grace.
The thing that sticks with me is that all people seek community . Wherever we are in our lives, we want to be in a place where we...
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[by shortening & alteration] slang : human beings making up a group or assembly or linked by a common interest. My step daughter, Julie, is going to love this! She uses it regularly to describe those she loves. I'm one of her 'peeps'. Nearly official, I think this means we can use it for Scrabble. ...
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a backlog of books.
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It’s a story of Lincoln’s leadership style during an American crisis. I love biographies but books by Doris Kearns Goodwin are so wonderful they’re like reading someone’s personal thoughts.
The market make...
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mentally motivate each type of buyer is vastly different of course. The consumer is driven by a set of values and desires and an emotional outcome. I love the last 2 year campaign by Citibank because they have really captured this emotional outcome with their tag , 'live richly'.
Level of Co...
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tally.
You seem distant to some - but it's usually because you're deep in thought.
Those who understand you best are fellow Rationals.
In love, you tend to approach things with logic. You seek a compatible mate - who is also very intelligent.
At work, you tend to gravitate toward id...
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