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People need to be inspired. They need to hear and believe a story. If you want them to be self-motivated, you need to engage them.
Michael J. Silverstein
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Michael J. Silverstein
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 1
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Original research starts all inspiration. Get inside the head of the consumer. Understand their needs, hopes and dreams. Deliver to their expectation. Have your team do the work. They will then have the framework for the solution. If they believe and they understand, the results will be their results.
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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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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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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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Get out of the office. Roam the frontline. Be observant. Hold your people accountable for creating the new narrative, a new story, in which your customers are the most important characters. Because, you know, they really are.
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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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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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People underestimate the power of the Internet. For some consumers, it is the source of all information. Younger adults are on their phones more than they watch television. They don't read newspapers. It is their real world. It is not a set of virtual lenses.
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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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A curious mind does not jump to conclusions but tests carefully and thoroughly. A curious mind will draw on all of life's experience to get to the big uh huh. The curious cut the data by quintile, by segment, and by user.
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Deliver infinite growth having your customers talk about you, exclaim you and tell their friends and colleagues about you.
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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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