The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?
Think about what else you want to be known for, apart from your primary function.
Chris Brogan • The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?
Anyone can differentiate themselves through any offering they have or anything they refuse to offer that their competitors do without thinking.
Chris Brogan • The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?
Only the smartest people catch badly designed ideas—and even then, only if they have the patience to do so.
Chris Brogan • The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?
When young people can have an influence so large, both through wealth and through their companies, the culture itself has to change.
Chris Brogan • The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?
It will be harder to impress audiences tomorrow than today, as it is harder today than yesterday.
Chris Brogan • The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?
The infrastructure of that time period would have restricted us—now the infrastructure sets us free. We were given opportunity simply because of when we were born and where we happened to be.
Chris Brogan • The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?
Pick a metric for everything you’re doing that matters.
Chris Brogan • The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?
Writing is now one of the few skills you must have—and we really mean “must” here—for the twenty-first century.
Chris Brogan • The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise?
Romance thirty. This is a business goal. You want to treat your thirty best customers (or whatever number you think you can manage) very well.