Habits to develop early in your career, to optimize your success.

4. “ Honor individual
differences. Take
people as they are.
Don’t attempt to
change or
manipulate them to
be like or to be
someone else”
- Warren Bennis

5. “…effective executives do not
start out by looking at
weaknesses. You cannot
build performance on
weaknesses. You can build
only on strengths. Make
weaknesses irrelevant.”
- Peter Drucker

6. The greatest danger for most
of us is not that our aim is too
high and we miss it, but that
it is too low and we reach it.
-Michelangelo

9. “Simplicity is the ultimate
sophistication”
- Steve Jobs

10. Making the simple complicated
is commonplace;
making the complicated simple,
awesomely simple... That’s
creativity!

14. “It is not the STRONGEST OF THE SPECIES that
survives,
NOR THE MOST INTELLIGENT,
but the one MOST RESPONSIVE
TO CHANGE”
- CHARLES DARWIN

15. When the winds of change are
blowing,
you can either build a shelter or
a windmill.

17. Re-invent
constantly …
lifetime
learning

18. "I am always doing that which I
can not do, in order that I may
learn how to do it."
- Pablo Picasso

19. The Importance of Continuous
Learning
The U.S. Department of Labor
estimates that today’s learner will
have 10-14 jobs …
by the age of 38!

22. It was much later that I realized Dad’s secret. He gained
respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-
grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way
he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president.
He was seriously interested in who
you were and what you had to say.”
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect

25. “The key is to be part of peoples
lives.
People will always prefer to do
business with friends”
- Marty Kohr

29. “People want to be part of
something larger than
themselves. They want to be part of
something they’re really proudof, that
they’ll fight for, sacrifice for , trust.”
—Howard Schultz, Starbucks

30. Don’t
fear
failure

31. “ You miss 100 percent of
the shots you never take"
- Wayne Gretsky

32. To avoid situations in which
you might make mistakes
may be the biggest mistake
of all.
-Peter McWilliams

33. We learn from our failures.
Period.
Failure to acknowledge failure
is a fatal disease.
Treating failure like a disease
is a fatal disease.
- Tom Peters

34. Explore …
“ Only those who risk going
too far can possibly find out
how far one can go .”
- t. s. elliot

35. FINAL THOUGHTS

36. “ Twenty years from now, you will be
more disappointed by the things you
didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bow line. Sail away from
the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
in your sail.
Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain

37. Stay Hungry.
Stay Foolish.
Steve Jobs

38. About Digital Spark Marketing
WHO WE ARE
Digital Spark Marketing is a Florida-based marketing services and
consulting company that assists clients to become customer-centric
leaders. We are skilled in the art and science of marketing, customer
engagement/experience design, and technology and innovation for
future growth.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
• Its all about people … starting with the customer
• Start with what exists … what is hiding?
• In co-creation … sum of parts is greater than whole
• Being visual … a picture is worth 1000 words
• Innovation is growth necessity …prototyping and testing many ideas
Digital Spark Marketing

39. About Dr. Schoultz
Dr. Schoultz has thirty five years of business development,
marketing, technology, and business operations
experience.
He served as VP / President of Distribution Technologies, a
company he helped to found and grow to a 700 M + / year
market leader.
He is founder and President of Digital Spark Marketing
Dr. Schoultz PhD. is from the University of Virginia.
Digital Spark Marketing

40. Contact us:
• Mike@Digitalsparkmarketing.com
• www.digitalsparkmarketing.com
• Twitter: @mikeschoultz
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