Seth Godin starts the year we a fascinating insight, pain is part of work, and it leads to two mistakes: When confronting with pain at work we think we have two choices: The notion that you can trade your way out of pain; or embracing your current pain and avoiding newer, unknown pains … But the one that pays is the third one…
“As a Director of Marketing, what’s the #1 thing you need to figure out about the web?”
This is a question that was recently posted at the Marketing Executives Group at LinkedIn, and the responses to that question are very revealing. But was it the right question to ask in the first place?
Experiments are good — only if reversible. If our experimentation becomes permanent, that’s not an experiment, but a decision. Problem is we sometimes forget to make that distinction. And we end up either being afraid to experiment because we think it will become permanent, or we end up making decisions which are permanent, when we [...]
When facing a crisis we tend to respond to our anxieties in a manner that often result in actions which tend to undermine our real interests, as these actions are not always the most effective way to gain the upper hand in the long run.
In 1982, when the war broke out on the northern border of Israel, I knew it wouldn’t be long before the reserves were called in: me included.
As a citizen of Israel — which I was at the time — I was a reservist soldier. I had my uniform, my boots, and my weapon in the closet.
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