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I Wonder Why Anyone Would Hesitate To Be Generous With Their Writing. I Mean, If You Really Want To Make A Living, Go To Wall Street And Trade Oil Futures ... We're Writers. We're Doing Something That Is Inherently A Generous Act. We're Exposing Ourselves To The Muse And To The Things That Frighten Us. Why Do That If You're Not Willing To Be Generous? And Paradoxically, Almost Ironically, It Turns Out That The More Generous You Are, The More Money You Make. But That's Secondary. For Me, The Privilege Of Being Generous Is Why I Get To Do This.

Two Different Things: A Crowd Is A Tribe Without A Leader. A Crowd Is A Tribe Without Communication. Most Organizations Spend Their Time Marketing To The Crowd. Smart Organizations Assemble The Tribe.

Where Do You Put The Fear When You Choose To Innovate? The Fear Is There, But You Have To Find A Place To Put It.

Data Is Not Useful Until It Becomes Information.

No, The Only Way To Know What People Think Is To Watch What They Do, Not What They Say. Do They Come Back For More? Do You Cause Them To Change Their Behavior? Can You Make Them Smile?