Crossing Gaps » quotes http://crossinggaps.com Digital Storytelling Wed, 28 Jan 2015 17:03:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 This point is relevant not only for mark… http://crossinggaps.com/this-point-is-relevant-not-only-for-mark/ http://crossinggaps.com/this-point-is-relevant-not-only-for-mark/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:33:23 +0000 http://crossinggaps.com/updates/this-point-is-relevant-not-only-for-mark/ This point is relevant not only for marketers but for product designers of all stripes. You have to be epic, you have to do the “hard thing,” that someone else can’t or won’t do.

Your products are predictable. Your insights are recycled. You don’t bring surprise with you when you enter a room.

That’s why people are ignoring you.

Which used to be fine, because you could just buy attention for your brand or your company or your sales efforts. But that half-price sale on attention is now over.

– Seth Godin

]]> http://crossinggaps.com/this-point-is-relevant-not-only-for-mark/feed/ 0 As entrepreneurs our job is to strive to… http://crossinggaps.com/as-entrepreneurs-our-job-is-to-strive-to/ http://crossinggaps.com/as-entrepreneurs-our-job-is-to-strive-to/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:09:58 +0000 http://crossinggaps.com/updates/as-entrepreneurs-our-job-is-to-strive-to/ As entrepreneurs our job is to strive towards solving Hard and Very Hard problems, while constantly making our way through trivial ones.

Very Hard is the extreme of hard problems. You”ll often see both words capitalised for emphasis, even in the middle of a sentence. Indexing the entire World Wide Web and providing relevant search online casino results in millisecond response times is a Very Hard problem. Breaking commercial-grade encryption within practical hardware and time limitations is a Very Hard problem. Peace in the Middle East is a Very Hard problem.

- Understand Engineers: Feasibility

]]> http://crossinggaps.com/as-entrepreneurs-our-job-is-to-strive-to/feed/ 0 Finished the Brazen Careerist http://crossinggaps.com/finished-the-brazen-careerist-the-new-r/ http://crossinggaps.com/finished-the-brazen-careerist-the-new-r/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:39:52 +0000 http://crossinggaps.com/updates/finished-the-brazen-careerist-the-new-r/ Finished the “Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success” by Penelope Trunk. I’ve been a long-time fan of her blog, and I have to say the book was a great read.

Leverage your core competencies by off-loading jargon.

]]> http://crossinggaps.com/finished-the-brazen-careerist-the-new-r/feed/ 0 Worth Thinking About http://crossinggaps.com/if-you-think-you-are-beaten-you-are-if/ http://crossinggaps.com/if-you-think-you-are-beaten-you-are-if/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:35:05 +0000 http://crossinggaps.com/updates/if-you-think-you-are-beaten-you-are-if/ I am utterly convinced that success as an entrepreneur, a designer, a “creator” is simply a matter of surviving long enough to collect the opportunities you need in order to succeed.

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t! If you want to win, but think you can’t, It’s almost a cinch you won’t. If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost; For out in the world we find Success begins with a fellow’s will; It’s all in the state of the mind. Life’s battles don’t always go To the stronger and faster man, But sooner or later the man who wins Is the man who thinks he can.

– Walter D. Wintle

]]> http://crossinggaps.com/if-you-think-you-are-beaten-you-are-if/feed/ 0 Almost at the end of this building hump…. http://crossinggaps.com/almost-at-the-end-of-this-building-hump/ http://crossinggaps.com/almost-at-the-end-of-this-building-hump/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:38:24 +0000 http://crossinggaps.com/updates/almost-at-the-end-of-this-building-hump/ Almost at the end of this building hump.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I”ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don”t rhyme, and some stories don”t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what”s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

- Gilda Radner

]]> http://crossinggaps.com/almost-at-the-end-of-this-building-hump/feed/ 0 “Businesses will live or die on origina… http://crossinggaps.com/businesses-will-live-or-die-on-origina/ http://crossinggaps.com/businesses-will-live-or-die-on-origina/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 19:06:29 +0000 http://crossinggaps.com/updates/businesses-will-live-or-die-on-origina/ “Businesses will live or die on original content…Get down to the essence of what your product solves and write good stories about that and publish them online.” – The New Rules of Marketing & PR (Book)

]]> http://crossinggaps.com/businesses-will-live-or-die-on-origina/feed/ 0 “People who feel good about themselves … http://crossinggaps.com/people-who-feel-good-about-themselves/ http://crossinggaps.com/people-who-feel-good-about-themselves/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 14:36:34 +0000 http://crossinggaps.com/updates/people-who-feel-good-about-themselves/ “People who feel good about themselves produce good results.” – The One Minute Manager (Book)

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