How does the underdog win? Or put another way…
How can the favorite lose?
Posts Tagged ‘the best’
Monday, February 8th, 2010
How does the underdog win?
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- Hi David,
I'm a new reader... :-)
I actually disagree (how rude of me, on my first comment!!!).
Maybe I was reading your post wrong, but I got the feeling you were, in a way, accusing the Colts and Peyton of a certain arrogance that in fact made the team and himself weaker. That cockiness was the main reason for their loss.
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Putting Up
“Simply the Best:” The theme for a Global Marketing Leaders Event organized last week by one of our clients.
- Nixon's silent majority? The deciders of many a contest -- across cultures; countries; divides
- Yes Stephen, but I don't see many who are conspicuously mediocre. Way back when I was an academic, there were students who sat down the front and others who sat way up the back. Neither mob was in the mediocre band - many became friends. But the mob hiding in the middle of the class were always in my sights. ...
- "They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity" - Bob Parr "Everyone's special" - Helen Parr Dash's Corollary: "Which is another way of saying no one is" "Everyone can be super. And when everyone's super...no one will be" - Buddy
Monday, July 9th, 2007
We Have Heard it Before
We have heard it before. No doubt we will hear it again—many times. What is it that clients are looking for?
- Greg also makes OK sportswear...or at least gives his name to it -- but still hsi golfing is what drives it all. Having said that you raise a great point -- CONCEPTS -- the beauty of them...media agnostic; integrated from birth; bigger than life -- amazing how often we forget that
- David, You are raising a question that I’ve been grappling with since I arrived in San Francisco 12 years ago, when I was “boxed” as a technology/interactive writer. I have long struggled to break out of this rigid definition of who I am and what I can do. Thereafter, I’ve seen this “specialization” in every walk - be it wrist ...
