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Seth Godin on Project Leadership

QAspire

Our career is about what projects we initiated/handled/led and what difference did the project deliver. Project is a new eco-system, a new playground where we play and thrive as professionals to deliver our best. [.] We live in a time when our career is not just a sum total of years we spent in the industry.

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Poke The Box: A Review and One Question to Seth Godin

QAspire

Last year, Seth Godin showed us a way to become a Linchpin. He started “ The Domino Project ” – his new publishing venture with Amazon that is aimed at changing the the way books are built, sold and spread. One question to Seth Godin. Seth Godin : Simple, but scary: don’t punish failure, reward it. Over to you.

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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?” – Seth Godin. Hire problem solvers.

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Attributes of a Powerful Question

QAspire

In his book “ Poke The Box ”, Seth Godin asked a powerful question, “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” The question helped me discover new potentialities within the self, find opportunities at the intersection of my skills and take up newer learning projects over the years.

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Information Underload: What Are You Missing?

Let's Grow Leaders

” -Seth Godin, “I Get It“ The higher you grow in the organization, the more you work [.] Communication confidence Empowerment Execution Trust communication empowerment information leadership project management' The post Information Underload: What Are You Missing? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Playing ping-pong with Seth Godin

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a recent blog post to by Seth Godin to which I now respond, point by point: A linchpin hierarchy Do exactly what the boss says. Comment: But only after you have made every effort to help provide the information and to raise the issues that need to be considered. Ask the boss hard [.].

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This Might Not Work! Start anyway. Poke the Box.

Leading Blog

Building on the ideas he first presented in Linchpin , Seth Godin is back encouraging us to start things—start a project, make a ruckus, take what feels like a risk. The box,” writes Godin, “might be a computer or it might be a market or it might be a customer or it might be your boss. Poke the Box is about seeing what happens.

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