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How to Get Clarity

Dwayne Harapnuik —  November 19, 2015 — Leave a comment

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There’s no such thing as “rebranding.” Your brand’s meaning is either clear or it’s fuzzy. And if it’s fuzzy, changing the look won’t help.

Source: Simon Sinek

Sinek uses the brand example to make this point but I think that this is so true with all of our communication. Repackaging or dressing up a poor message does little to offer clarity.

Clarity comes from concise editing.

Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. Stand for real, living, breathing people and we will change the world.

Simon Sinek

bad predictions

Source: http://www.johntabita.com/tag/technology/

Paul Krugman on the irrelevance of the Internet - 1998 - Imgur

Source: imgur.com

One of the biggest challenges with making any sort of prediction with circumstances beyond our control is that we can be terribly wrong. Krugman can join the ranks of many others who have been very wrong about the predictions that they have made.

What can we learn from this? While it is very important to be optimistic and speculate realisticly on just how far technology can take us it is equally important to control the variables that you can and in the words of Mahatma Gandhi:

gandhi-be the change-quotes

The following links include several list of terribly wrong predictions about technology:

Top 10 Bad Tech Predictions
Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions
Use It Better: The Worst Tech Predictions of All Time
26 Shockingly Bad Predictions