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Saying 'no'
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/85609afe-c369-4d04-b884-7469d20ae1ad/751A62B9-D499-44EA-8EE9-A6B2141E2F1C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/saying-no.html" href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/saying-no.html" style="font-size: 11px;">sethgodin.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/saying-no.html"><DIV id="entry-66641297" class="entry"> <H3 class="entry-header">Saying 'no'</H3> <DIV class="entry-content"> <DIV class="entry-body"> <P>If you've got talent, people want more of you. They ask you for this or that or the other thing. They ask nicely. They will benefit from the insight you can give them.</P><P>The choice: You can dissipate your gift by making the people with the loudest requests temporarily happy, or you can change the world by saying 'no' often. </P><P>You can say no with respect, you can say no promptly and you can say no with a lead to someone who might say yes. But just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.</P><P>Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.</p> </DIV> <P class="feedburnerFlareBlock"><A class="first" href="http://technorati.com/search/http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/saying-no.html">Technorati Links</A><SPAN> • </SPAN><A href="http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&partner=fb&url=http:%2F%2Fsethgodin.typepad.com%2Fseths_blog%2F2009%2F05%2Fsaying-no.html&title=Saying+%27no%27">Save to del.icio.us (68 saves, tagged: sethgodin productivity leadership)</A><SPAN> • </SPAN><A href="http://digg.com/business_finance/Saying_no_5">Digg This! (11 Diggs, 6 comments)</A><SPAN> • </SPAN><A href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailFlare?itemTitle=Saying%20%27no%27&uri=http:%2F%2Fsethgodin.typepad.com%2Fseths_blog%2F2009%2F05%2Fsaying-no.html">Email this</A><SPAN> • </SPAN><A href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/saying-no.html&title=Saying \'no\'">Stumble It! (2 Reviews)</A><SPAN> • </SPAN><A href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/typepad/sethsmainblog">Subscribe to this feed</A><SPAN> • </SPAN><A href="http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http:%2F%2Fsethgodin.typepad.com%2Fseths_blog%2F2009%2F05%2Fsaying-no.html">Share on Facebook</A><SPAN> • </SPAN><A href="http://twitthis.com/twit?url=http:%2F%2Fsethgodin.typepad.com%2Fseths_blog%2F2009%2F05%2Fsaying-no.html&title=Saying%20%27no%27">Twit This!</A></p> </DIV> <DIV class="entry-footer"> <P class="entry-footer-info"> <SPAN class="post-footers">Posted by Seth Godin on May 26, 2009</SPAN> <SPAN class="separator">|</SPAN> <A href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/saying-no.html" class="permalink">Permalink</A> </p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/751A62B9-D499-44EA-8EE9-A6B2141E2F1C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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