Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 6, 2024

When a resource can be used more efficiently, we end up using more of the thing, not less. So, when cars get better gas mileage, people drive more, and consumption can actually go up. When AI learns to write computer code, the demand for programmers goes up , because more efficient code is more attractive, and we want more of it.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 7, 2017

The paradox is that you might also believe that you do this all the time, and that others do it too. If you see yourself as an engineer, a scientist, or even a person of logic, then it's entirely possible that you work to make rational decisions, decisions that lead to the outcomes you seek. Almost every choice we make is subconscious.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

We often develop slang or codewords to keep the others from understanding what we’re saying. Here’s an example (thanks BK) of the lengths that some are going to be able to talk about Chinese politics. Of course, if you come up with a concealed enough code, the people you’re talking to won’t have a clue what you mean.

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The optic nerve dominates. It’s piped directly into our brains and uses a lot of processing power to help us discern the world through vision. As a result, it’s louder than our other senses and often outshouts the rest of our brain. That’s why it’s easy to be fooled by a magician.

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BCG

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Two paradoxes surround value creation in the telecommunications industry. The resolution of the second paradox is easier than the first. Finding a value-creating way through the first paradox is more demanding. Article Thursday, October 27, 2016. However, none of them is in the top ten this year.).

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

When the stakes are high, when it has to be a HIT, in all capital letters, we overinvest. The big stars. The lack of creative risk. The inflated budget and the meetings overrun with meddlers. After all, it’s big. Our insistence that it be guaranteed to work almost ensures that it won’t. Forcing something to be big makes it small.

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Hence the paradox. If your goal is to be universally liked and respected and understood, then, it must mean your goal is to not do something that matters. Which requires hiding. Hiding, of course, isn't the point. You don't want to be criticized and you do want to matter. The solution: Create work that gets criticized.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We often feel guilty about using products designed to make it easier for us to help others.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2020

The typical ten-year-old violinist can’t tell the difference between a cheap instrument and a Guarneri. A harried traveler simply wolfs down a hamburger, not really worried or aware of its provenance or flavor.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The paradox comes in when Singer points out that if it''s a moral imperative to save this child at the cost of ruining a pair of shoes, we certainly face that same imperative every day. Does it make a difference, I ask, that there are other people walking past the pond who would equally be able to rescue the child but are not doing so?

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The Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Here’s a scenario we’ve all been in: You are on your way to dinner at a friend’s house, and you don’t want to turn up empty-handed. You intended to go to that gorgeous artisan chocolate shop near your office to pick up a little gift, but the day ran away with you, and now you’ve got to get something en route, otherwise you’ll be late.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 22, 2016

A paradox, on the other hand, is gated by boundaries that make a solution impossible. You may have invented a paradox, creating so many limits that you'll never get anywhere. It makes no sense to work on a paradox. That what makes it a problem. Drop it and move on. Drop it and move on.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

One can refuse to pay bills, bully employees, steal credit, work the refs and look for shortcuts… or pay bills ahead of time, elevate employees, amplify the credit of others and take the long road. While both are modern signifiers of a certain kind of success, only one is a resilient way forward.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2021

To thrive in an increasingly complex world, leaders will need to develop seemingly contradictory skill sets.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Transparency helps fight algorithmic bias. But it also leaves organizations vulnerable to cyber attacks.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 5, 2019

On one hand, Uncle Ben’s rule makes great sense: “With great power comes great responsibility.” ” The essence of the rule is that once you have great power, you need to take the responsibility that goes with it. And yet, it’s backfiring. It’s backfiring because so many walk away from their great power.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The paradox, of course, is that you have to walk through a huge valley of unpopular before you arrive at the population that will embrace you because that's the thing to do. Pop music, for example, is a must-listen among certain populations because that's what "everyone else" is listening to, and being in sync is the primary benefit on offer.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Belief happens when we combine community with emotion. It’s a way for us to see and understand the world, at the same time that we engage with some of the people around us. Belief is a symptom of shared connection, and community makes us human. Reality, on the other hand, is widely experienced and consistent.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

We illuminate the paradoxical concept that our most challenging experiences, when seasoned with a pinch of gratitude, can shape us positively. In this episode, we're flipping the script and delving into how embracing all human experiences - the ecstasy and the agony - leads to a life of heightened compassion and understanding.

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Strategy+Business

MARCH 3, 2014

Business experts say a wealth of new products and ideas will flow from emerging economies to developed markets--but real-world examples are hard to find.'

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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

It can be something prosaic–I learned last week that I’d been preheating my dosa pan for too long, and that’s why (paradoxically) they weren’t becoming crispy. In that moment, we’re not exactly sure how to do it better, but we realize that the way we’d been doing it wasn’t nearly as useful.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2017

These leaders possess the paradoxical blend of humility and channel whatever ego and drive they have into the good of other and radically serving others. Their organizational strength is based on their competence and burgeoning self-awareness. Internal source of power and external focus of love: Authentic Leadership.

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Consultants' Consultant

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Consultants Consultant: The great idea paradox you are your most creative when you are tired! The post Creative thoughts appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 30, 2015

When you see the corn paradox, label it and act accordingly. Which is why, over the last thirty years, farmers markets and other entities have slowly grown in influence. Because happy customers tell stories about remarkable products and services. Tell stories for the few, help them to spread. A keeper.

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Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 8, 2015

And the paradox is that this will sooner or later lead to disappointment. Perhaps this is what your organization desires: To be more trusted, to have people willing to pay more, choose you more often, expect more. Of course, over time, good work will lead to higher expectations. Raised expectations tend to be exponential.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The paradox of the early astronaut training programs was that they recruited hot shots who were used to living in their own lane, and then trained them to be experts at being in close quarters. Those bottles are going to go somewhere when you’re done with them, and the world is smaller than ever before.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

Learn how leaders can develop an “adaptively authentic” style in this video slide deck. Download a customizable version here.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Instead, it’s a false paradox based on a misunderstanding of Darwinian evolution and taxonomy. The absence of a punchline reminds us of how much we care about punchlines. On the other hand, “which came first, the chicken or the egg,” isn’t a joke at all.

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Strategy+Business

MARCH 3, 2014

Business experts say a wealth of new products and ideas will flow from emerging economies to developed markets--but real-world examples are hard to find.'

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 24, 2007

Today I'd like to introduce you to the Mission Paradox Blog of Adam Thurman. I am a member of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange - a group of nonprofit bloggers who try to promote each other's work as resources for the nonprofit community online. As part of that exchange, we occasionally post reviews of each other's web sites.

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Henry DeVries

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In her research, marketing professor Kelly Goldsmith examines people’s responses to uncertainty and scarcity, uncovering and explaining seemingly paradoxical effects. Are you falling into the social media comparison trap?

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 28, 2016

There are a billion people trying to do something important for the first time. These people are connected by the net, posting, creating, daring to leap first. It's hard, because the number of people racing with you to be original is huge.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Navigating Paradoxes As change leaders , we need to acknowledge that paradoxes exist and learn to be comfortable navigating them. As we encounter the tension change urgency might generate, we must ensure that it does not cause too much friction in our teams.

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Simon Associates

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Perlmutter, a professor and dean of the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University, readily admits that “one of the great paradoxes of higher-education leadership is that most of us who find ourselves in administrative positions have not studied the kind of work we end up doing on a day-to-day basis. The author, David D.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The studios spend ever more on the blockbusters they make because that demonstrates their power and pays everyone in the chain more money, which creates more (apparent) power for those in charge. But since they pay so much, they have no choice, they think, but to say, “This must work!”

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The Source

DECEMBER 10, 2020

But, paradoxically, it’s almost impossible to achieve these high levels of engagement if you try to produce content that appeals equally to every potential reader. Clients are busy, and thought leadership is plentiful.

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PM Alliance

JULY 7, 2023

It’s an unfortunate paradox, where project professionals who lack confidence tend to avoid exposure to unfamiliar situations. This leaves them with few opportunities to build their knowledge and skillsets or to gain experience where they need it most.

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