Imagination | Ashton.Gustafson

Jun 27 2012

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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Imagination, Leadership

The Competitive Advantage of Speed and Response

Response and speed will be the competitive advantages the great enterprises seek in the decades to come.

You can own any market with a simple 3 step formula:

1). Find the market.

2). Identify the market’s needs.

3). Respond with a remedy.

Could it be more simple?

Of course your remedy response is the most courageous step you’ll have to take, but he who can boldly take these three steps the fastest wins in the marketplace.

And after you respond with a remedy to the need – keep listening.

We love when our favorite bands and businesses actually play the music we requests.

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Jun 26 2012

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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Marketing

One of the bedrock rules of kindergarten is back: share.

Your social media platform will not succeed without sharing.

Your mentorship with a young lad is contingent on the sharing of your hard knock knowledge.

Your business will thrive with the information it shares.

Share. Then share some more.

Rest assured, you will get more than you give.

Alas, in this brave new world you are what you share.

Tagged Ashton Gustafson, blog, business, entrepreneurship, ideas, ltmp, service, Share, sharing

Jun 22 2012

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Creativity, Imagination, Let The Music Play

Success Defined (Pinpointed)

“The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus … By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.”Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Making music, for purposes of this blog, is a metaphor for success. It is great news that music can’t be defined. No one, wants someone outside of them defining what success looks like for them. But it can be pinpointed.

Something inside of us is stirred when communication, instrumentation, rhythmic togetherness, originality, improvisation, passionate energy, and a message of hope connects and combines simultaneously.

Success, Letting The (your) Music Play, is that stir that I speak of.