Make sure you have attentive ears before you go buy batteries for your product’s or service’s megaphone.
If you’re making music, we’ll stop and listen. If you’re making noise, we’ll simply Tivo through you.
Perfect is simply not in the cards for us.
Perfection is a place we’ve convinced ourselves we’ve seen…we haven’t.
On the flip side, we can be pointed towards becoming perfectable…I.E. there will come a day.
We are works in progress and this is a freeing conversation.
Depends on who you’re asking?
If you’re Amazon, the deal is the rowdiest bookstore on the planet. And, shop with us a lot and we’ll bring it to your doorstep for free. Oh, and no tax…yet.
If you’re the Alabama Crimson Tide, the deal is we don’t lose much.
If you’re Facebook, the deal is look WHO is doing WHAT.
If you’re TOMs Shoes, the deal is buy one give one.
Whatever your deal is, today, it must be sharable, text-able, email-able, remarkable.
And please take time developing your deal. We can spy junk mail and mass texts deals from a mile away.
Your deal allows the recruit to commit and the customer to click.
You + Your Ideas = The Future
Eagle Eye View + Cheetah Eye View = Holistic Education
Decision + Brilliant Execution = Change
Big Hat + No Cattle = Big Hat
Me – My Pride = A Better Man
Listening + Responding + Service = Flawless Business Model
After the math lies the aftermath, and it is in these algorithms where we can decipher what is music or what is noise happening around us.
Careful not to be locked in your world.
Exposure to “otherness” will leads us all to see that we are all after
the same thing…hope.
Cowboy boots can learn a little something on a Manhattan subway, and
so can Brooks Brothers sleeves rolled up to serve at a shelter.
These boots were not just made for horseback, and these suits were
also meant for serving, not just selling.
It never ceases to amaze me how much “we” and “otherness” have in common. In the same breath, I’m always taken by the beauty that unfolds in the aftermath of cross-pollination.
The fingers of a bluegrass mandolin can learn a lot from a blue jazz soul.
