http://www.onleadingwell.com/2009/09/17/seths-problem-with-non/ Practical leadership...for the rest of us. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:56:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.onleadingwell.com/2009/09/17/seths-problem-with-non/comment-page-1/#comment-337 Dave Thom Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:37:31 +0000 http://www.onleadingwell.com/?p=515#comment-337 Hi Ken, I'm an accidental tourist to your site (LinkedIn gave me a chance to look you up after I linked to Brad Files, do you know Brad?) and I just read Seth's piece. I realize you posted it because it's provacative though not necessarily prescriptive. Change for change's sake isn't what it's all about, but you know that. I'm always trying to look past someone's words to guess their real agenda, so before I looked him up, I guessed: "Seth wants to make a buck selling marketing to someone." I Googled him, I was right. So he thinks everyone is failing until they use his marketing plan. May I say, this guy just isn't all there? About Twitter he says it's "...one that people use to focus attention and galvanize action." No sir! It's mere celebrity gossip to fill empty lives. Whoever wants to be in Twitter's top 100, wants as vapid a life as possible. I don't want to get too overblown in my analysis of Seth but he's selling popularism and not real leadership. Leadership isn't instant, it isn't very popular, and it isn't marketable. It sells itself because it produces. If it needs marketing, it ain't leadership ~ it's popularship. There, I coined a term. But I'm not going to start a blog to knock marketers and score bucks on my new hip term-creating. Looks like you're with Crusade to help with leadership: that's great. To have that job for that organization is a wonderful thing. Keep up the good work. ~ Dave Hi Ken, I’m an accidental tourist to your site (LinkedIn gave me a chance to look you up after I linked to Brad Files, do you know Brad?) and I just read Seth’s piece. I realize you posted it because it’s provacative though not necessarily prescriptive. Change for change’s sake isn’t what it’s all about, but you know that. I’m always trying to look past someone’s words to guess their real agenda, so before I looked him up, I guessed: “Seth wants to make a buck selling marketing to someone.” I Googled him, I was right. So he thinks everyone is failing until they use his marketing plan. May I say, this guy just isn’t all there? About Twitter he says it’s “…one that people use to focus attention and galvanize action.” No sir! It’s mere celebrity gossip to fill empty lives. Whoever wants to be in Twitter’s top 100, wants as vapid a life as possible. I don’t want to get too overblown in my analysis of Seth but he’s selling popularism and not real leadership. Leadership isn’t instant, it isn’t very popular, and it isn’t marketable. It sells itself because it produces. If it needs marketing, it ain’t leadership ~ it’s popularship. There, I coined a term. But I’m not going to start a blog to knock marketers and score bucks on my new hip term-creating. Looks like you’re with Crusade to help with leadership: that’s great. To have that job for that organization is a wonderful thing. Keep up the good work. ~ Dave

]]> http://www.onleadingwell.com/2009/09/17/seths-problem-with-non/comment-page-1/#comment-263 @kicktheball Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:01:47 +0000 http://www.onleadingwell.com/?p=515#comment-263 Ken (and Seth), great post! Thanks for putting this out there and pointing out the irony of the whole situation. Hopefully you will soon see Keynote atop the Twitter follower lists! Thanks for the inspiration. Ken (and Seth), great post! Thanks for putting this out there and pointing out the irony of the whole situation. Hopefully you will soon see Keynote atop the Twitter follower lists! Thanks for the inspiration.

]]> http://www.onleadingwell.com/2009/09/17/seths-problem-with-non/comment-page-1/#comment-261 Ken Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:03:34 +0000 http://www.onleadingwell.com/?p=515#comment-261 Great article! Thanks for sharing it, Ken! Great article! Thanks for sharing it, Ken!

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