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The Success/Failure Illusion

The Fearless Marketer

But there are some really big problems with our ideas of both success and failure. The definition of success is: “the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.”. The definition of failure is: “not accomplishing an aim or purpose.”. With success, you get what you set out to get. With failure, you don’t.

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Why We Struggle with Marketing

The Fearless Marketer

It’s mindsets, beliefs, and fears, not technologies and strategies that prevent us from being successful at marketing and selling. We’d like to think that all the challenges related to successful marketing are all exterior. There are two things that make us struggle with marketing. I’m terrible at learning all that stuff.”.

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Almost All Managers Have at Least One Career-Limiting Habit

Harvard Business

He recently told Rick he is not on the succession plan to become the next CEO because his volatile temper could destroy the company. The cause: Certainly a lack of reliability can be a failure of organization. Rick’s boss thinks Rick is both brilliant, and a tyrant. Unreliability. But many of us fail to meet that 100% mark.

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Tspiras Claims to have "Won a Battle, Not the War"; Greece to Combat Tax Evasion; Illusion Shattered; Another Bailout?

MishTalk

Illusion Shattered Streamlining civil services will reduce expenses, but it''s hardly what the leftist government promised. Nonetheless, those expecting Tsipras to immediately honor all pledges, just had their illusion shattered. But veteran leftist Manolis Glezos attacked the failure to fulfill campaign promises. "I

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Critics Flock to Site "ThisIsACoup"; Killing the European Project; Illusions; Who's Going to Pay?

MishTalk

Can Greece pull off a successful exit? CNN Money reports the top trending twitter hash site in Greece, Germany, the UK, and Ireland this evening is #ThisIsACoup. ThisIsACoup" " This Eurogroup list of demands is madness," the economist Paul Krugman wrote on his blog. The trending hashtag ThisIsACoup is exactly right. He is correct as written.

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How Corporate Values Get Hijacked and Misused

Harvard Business

What appears less common is their understanding of the destructive consequences of allowing that to happen. They reflexively grasp for the culture lever, assuming the act of crafting and publishing a set of values actually has the power to do something. People want their company’s values to be sacrosanct. Here’s how it happens: 1.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Obama's HAMP Program a.

MishTalk

Illusion of Prosperity. Obamas HAMP Program a Stunning Success. GoldMoney: The Best Way to Buy Gold & Silver. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral. Minyanville Business and Market News. Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News. Abolish The Fed Sign the Petition. Home Builders.

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