Below is a lesson from Seth Godin on thinking bigger, as well as our key learning.

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THINKING BIGGER

By Seth Godin

“How do you like the draft of the new brochure?” asks the boss.

There are several responses available to you, in order of wonderfulness:

• It’s great.
• There’s a typo here on page 2.
• What if we changed the size of the headline?
• Are you open to considering different typefaces and colors?
• Where are you going to distribute this?
• Why use a brochure? Couldn’t we spend the same money more effectively?
• Where are you on this scale?

You could hire a brilliant graphic designer to take your bullet-filled powerpoint and fix the fonts and clean it up. But would it change the game?

When in doubt, challenge the strategy, not the tactics.

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Key learnings:

• When in doubt, challenge the strategy, not the tactics.
• None of us are doing enough to challenge the assignment
• Wonder, “is this big enough?”
• That’s when marketing pays for itself. Not when we find a typo or redesign a logo, but when we reconsider the question and turn the answer into something bigger than we ever expected.