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Q1 is behind us, Q2 is here … ever wonder why April Fools day is on the first day of a new quarter? My outlook for the next quarter is to dominate all of the spinning plates.
Here is my point of view:
Be Early …
Be Complete …
Be Victorious!
Before Nike, there was Art Williams. You may have thought that Nike coined the phrase Just Do It … but they didn’t.
Art Williams, the founder of the company that eventually became Primerica, was bought by Citigroup, then was spun off this year as a private company, was the person that coined the phrase. His focus was on the need to “Do it” in business to succeed. When asked what “it” was … his reply was “just do it.”
Art was originally a football coach and started a life insurance business back in the mid 1970s. I joined primerica briefly during 1995 and found Art’s speeches to be the most inspirational words I had heard … because he was talking to business people like a preacher. He was amazing. Tape after tape. He was amazing.
While I didn’t stay with Primerica for very long, Art’s words helped shape me as a business person. There is never enough to be done, so just go do some more. As one colleague many years later said – nothing great happens between 9 and 5. The point, Just Do It.
If you are starting a business, just do it. Stop planning, start doing. Stop writing, start doing. Stop dreaming, start doing.
This is one of the best speeches he ever gave. It was given to a religious group, and Art is a religious man. The message is not religious per se. However, the point that doing it comes from commitment certainly can be taken that way … watch, learn, and apply to your life. If you can “do it” more often, your life will be changed.
There is much buzz about Google’s reported interest in paying Verizon for faster access to its sites. SAI thinks its a pact with the devil.
I think it is a different. Net Neutrality in its simplest form means access. At some level, it means a min level of performance too, but it doesn’t mean fiber from door to door. If Google is willing to pay for upgraded service, then isn’t that ok? Isn’t that the essence of Freemium? Is Verizon practicing customer development and trying to pivot? Seems pretty cool to me!
In an interview this evening on CNBC, Eric Schmidt said that ‘historically’ Microsoft and Yahoo are his competitors. He went on to say that what he worries about is “an entreprenurial company that will take cloud computing in a direction [Google] hasn’t thought about yet.”
With products like Docs, Wave, etc, they are doing a great job of staying ahead of the curve … so the question is: What could / should the next big thing “be” in the cloud?
“Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid. ~Franklin P. Jones from Copy Blogger
“Yes” – 59 state senators from Illinois regarding should Rod Blagojevich be impeeched.
“Amazon gives market a late holiday present.” from Market Watch … boy I hope Amazon’s outlook is on the right path.
