When attempting to turn things around for a particularly disliked or controversial client, Sitrick was fond of saying, "We need to find a lead steer! " The media, like any group of animals, gallops in a herd. It takes just one steer to start a stampede.
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
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Alain De Botton
Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.
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Demosthenes
Acknowledgements! My thanks to HollywoodWhen you showed me John RamboStitching up his arm with no anaesthetic And giving them “a war they won’t believe” I knew then my calling, the job for me Thanks also to the recruitment adverts For showing me soldiers whizzing around...
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Danny Martin
Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.
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Dennis Perrin
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The combination of power, fear, and mania can be deadly. The leader, convinced that he might be betrayed, acts first and betrays others first. Afraid that he's not well liked, he works so hard to get others to like him that it has the opposite...
Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.
Doing great work is a struggle. It's draining, it's demoralizing, it's frightening - not always, but it can feel that way when we're deep in the middle of it.
When you can break apart something, or look at it from some new angle, it loses its power over you.
The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments? It is far better to ask and answer...
