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The choices we make define our future.

Michael J. Silverstein

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Michael J. Silverstein
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
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Choices
Future
Make
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Respond to your customer's dissatisfactions with precision and power.
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I admire many entrepreneurs. They bring energy, excitement, youthful enthusiasm. What they lack in process, they make up for in gumption.
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Transform your employees into passionate disciples. Teach. Create apostles. Give people a calling, not a job.
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A curious mind armed with skill, experience, knowledge, and patterns can give birth to big brand revolution.
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Own one idea. Complete it. Map the current model of purchase and usage. Change how it is done so at least some part of the market uses only your product. Extend from that core user to a much broader universe. Describe your concept in a very short, six-word story - a la Ernest Hemingway: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
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Failure to make the tough but necessary choices means slow painful death.
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Truth is so difficult to hear about. It must be experienced.
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The top 25 at every company really set the tone. Everyone watches them. They need to be present and focused. No slackers at the top. They need to meet in combination every recruit. They need to meet them on the first day. They need to teach by example. This is the lesson that great companies teach.
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I believe in classic ideas. They are timeless. They are forever. There are many fads in management.
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Take giant leaps. Too many companies are into incremental innovation. The only thing that moves markets is violent turns. Major differences. Don't get caught in the trap of small steps.
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Consumers are time constrained, budget restricted and less loved than they would like. Give them a wonderful experience and they will share it. Capture their soul and win big time.
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Companies that get in trouble have a failure to see two realities: market trends and competitor attacks.
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Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.
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For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are odd but hold opportunity. I ask: how do they use the product, what motivates them, how can we clone them.
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Woo your biggest fans. This rule says concentrate your efforts at understanding on the 2 percent of consumers that personally drive 20 percent of sales and invite their friends and colleagues to enjoy you.
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