The one person you must never, ever listen to - Mark Morford

[madokie]

Here’s a basic rule you can live by, safe in the knowledge that doing so will, almost invariably, lead to a happier existence:

When the sour voice of resistance and stagnation makes a statement about How Things Really Should Be, check your sources. And then run the other way.

More specifically: When the former CEO of any bloated, archaic industry, one that hasn’t had to innovate or revolutionize its ways in nearly a century, warns you against doing something, that’s your cue: Do it. Do it now.

Sounds obvious, right? It’s not. Cynicism and the bitter daggers of doubt can be unutterably clever, cloaking themselves as sage wisdom, as insight, strewn about everywhere: in college, in church, in unhappy parents, in media, in industries of every shape and tone. But mostly, they take up residence in your very own head. They are the parasites on your creative impulse, sand in the gas tank of just shut up and do it. And they mean you ill.

http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2015/02/23/the-one-person-never-obey/

[Cha]

1. K

[nichomachus]

2. You don't get into the CEO Club because you're necessarily bright

And once you're in, it's almost impossible to fail. They only way you can get thrown out is to steal from rich people. Run a company into the ground, and you'll get a diamond-studded golden parachute and a new gig within a few weeks.