Friday Link Love

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The topics that attracted my attention this week range from quitting, abusing friends and family and agonizing over how to best apologize. Could be time for professional counseling.

I’m clearly being a little tongue-in-cheek. It’s how I stave off the creeping blackness of existential angst.

Tom Martin, however, has an alternative cure. For anyone who is sick of putting up the good fight, or who wonders when their day in the sun will come, he offers the following gem:

“When you feel like saying ‘I quit’ — don’t.”

That’s why God (and Tom, as it happens) gave us Eminem evidently. But if Eminem doesn’t do it for you, then check the comments under Tom’s post instead.

Marketing consultant and barroom wingman, Greg Donahue, takes a moment this week to remember the value of family and friends – especially when you need to break out of corporate group think and test the efficacy of your latest ad or direct mail piece on real people. I know that’s what my mom is for.

And, not to appear sycophantic, but I’m recommending another post by Peter Bowerman, of Well-Fed Writer fame. This time he’s asking, “What’s the right way to apologize when you screw up?”

I personally think it would have been funnier to ask “What’s the wrong way to apologize?” But that’s why Peter makes the big bucks…

Finally, talking about what’s funny, I bookmarked and then neglected to recommend last week a post by Olivier Blanchard on The Brand Builder blog entitled Fear and Loathing in Social Media: The 10 Rules of corporate denial and blatant overreaction.

As a little sampling, here’s #10: “Maybe the easiest thing is to wait and see what your competitors will do, then maybe do that.”

Have a good weekend…