Passion Is The Ultimate Competitive Advantage

I’m more convinced everyday that passion is the ultimate competitive advantage in business.

Competency is expected. Only flawless execution is tolerable.

But when you enable passion, you drive focus, cultivate mastery, leverage spontaneity, foster creativity, build intuition and live toward mission.… Read the rest

Do Real-Time Analytics Stifle Decisions?

Do real-time analytics stifle marketers’ ability to make decisions? That is the premise of my latest MediaPost column:

First of all, think about the fear of not knowing, or not knowing right now. Does that fear consume one’s ability to focus mental or decision-making resources where they should be?

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I Inspired Someone To Start A Blog

My “Why All Marketing People Should Blog” column for MediaPost inspired this person to start a blog. I can’t figure out the person’s name, but he (or she) says this:

So I’m finally starting a blog. And I won’t lie… i pulled the trigger after reading a MediaPost article by Max Kalehoff that really everyone in marketing should have a blog.

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