It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

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.

Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.

I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.