Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Awakening

The fallacy of inept bad guys
One of the most wonderful things about Netflix is its ability to allow you to relive your childhood TV watching. For me, that also means rewatching the occasional episode of shows like GI Joe and Transformers, etc. In addition to realizing how poorly written those shows were in general, something else leapt out at me: the bad guys were always horribly inept. This is a trend not limited to kids’ shows, either. Any adult who’s seen Star Wars can testify to the aim of the Galactic Empire’s Stormtroopers, who on a good day would be lucky to hit the Death Star with a blaster at 50 yards.

This got me thinking about how we condition not only our children, but ourselves to believe that the opposition in any context is clueless. We are the “good guys” (whatever that means) and we expect the “bad guys” to be so clueless that victory is all but assured. We don’t win so much as the bad guys perpetually lose, from harebrained schemes that stand no chance of working to bad aim to execution of plans that are laughably botched. As kids, we came to expect that the bad guys would just do really stupid stuff, allowing the good guys to save the day, get the girl, and be home in time for dinner.

Think about how that might set you up for repeated failure in life. Most of the time in life, your opposition isn’t completely inept, and it’s dangerously naive to believe that it will be. In fact, sometimes the opposition is bigger, better, tougher, and smarter than you are. Now imagine walking into a fight (or a negotiation, or a meeting, or a sales deal) against someone who is bigger, better, and badder – but you don’t perceive that reality. You instead believe that because you’re the “good guys”, the hero of your personal story, that the opponent is automatically lesser than you. Your arrogance and underestimation of the opposition means your defeat is pre-ordained.

Lest we just believe this applies to children’s entertainment, I see this trend of arrogance and underestimation all the time in marketing plans and strategies, especially in much of the language of startup marketing. The founders of a startup believe that the incumbents in their industry are dinosaurs, that they’re inept and clueless compared to the nimbleness of the startup and the greatness of their idea. Their arrogance blinds them to the fact that yes, a dinosaur may be larger than you and slower, but the dinosaur only needs to step on you once and it’s game over. The dinosaur may be slow to turn, but when it does, a swipe of its tail clears an entire landscape.

The antidote to this mistaken belief system, to this perspective of the world that was built into children’s entertainment, is to see the world as it actually is, rather than how we want it to be. It means looking at data and asking it to tell us what the story is, what the reality, not demanding that our data fit to our pre-ordained conclusion. It means assuming the opposition is a legitimate threat until they prove otherwise, rather than assuming that they’re incompetent. Most of all, it means abandoning the belief that we deserve to win, and instead believing we have to earn all of our victories the hard way.

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September 24, 2013
Where Marketing’s Next Best Ideas Will Come From
In just a few weeks, on October 16, I’ll be helping to kick off the first day of the FutureM Conference here in Boston. My session, ambitiously titled “Where Marketing’s Next Best Ideas Will Come From“, will be more of a workshop than just a straight-up slideshow. We’ll play a little World of Warcraft, we’ll talk some 16th century ninja martial arts, we’ll discuss some cooking, toss in a dash of Buddhist-inspired thinking, and look at how all of this blends together to make a potent creative stew.

To give you a taste of what the session will be about, take a moment to think about a favorite recipe that you prepare. It could be anything from a simple pasta and sauce dish to something as elaborate as Eggs Benedict with real, made from scratch Hollandaise sauce. Got the recipe in mind?

Good. Next, think of a couple of times when that recipe broke down. What went wrong? For example, maybe you let the pasta get too waterlogged. Maybe the Hollandaise cooled down and congealed. Maybe the fish for the seared tuna wasn’t as fresh. What went wrong?

Make a list of the things that have gone wrong in the preparation of that recipe. Now start to group them together. Timing issues dominate cooking – waiting too long or not long enough. Order issues dominate cooking – doing things in the wrong order or trying to cut corners and blend steps together that must remain discrete. Got your “fails” all ordered and grouped up?

Which group of failures happens more often than not? How much would your cooking improve if you could solve for that particular failure category? Is there a gadget, perhaps, that could fix that class of failure? Is there a method or a technique that could fix or prevent that class of failure? Does it exist? If it doesn’t exist, how easy would it be to create something to fix that failure?

Fixing your greatest failures is one of the proven methods for innovation, whether it’s cooking or marketing. Find a failure that you see frequently and fix the root of it, fix it in such a way that it knocks out the biggest portion of mistakes you make. That innovation will in turn improve everything else you do, from scheduling social media postings to cooking breakfast to inventing the next big thing.

My session is not going to be me telling you what’s next. My session is going to try to help you discover your own next best ideas. I hope to see you there.

Disclosure: FutureM is a client of my employer, SHIFT Communications. I did not receive any direct compensation from FutureM for this post or the promotion around it, but obviously if SHIFT gets new business from people who attend my session, I receive an indirect financial benefit.

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September 20, 2013
The First Amendment Does Not Protect Stupid Speech
I’ve noticed a fair amount of commentary about the firing of Business Insider’s CTO after his archive of racist, misogynist, and generally stupid tweets were discovered and brought to light. More than a few people have said that his firing is a “worrying potential infringement” of his right to free speech. It is not an infringement.

I’d like to clarify that the First Amendment applies strictly to what the government may or may not do.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

The law in no way addresses what private employers, private businesses, and private individuals may do on private property. In fact, the only major laws that govern freedom of speech in the private (non-government) workplace are laws related to anti-discrimination and harassment.

The First Amendment gives you the right to say what you want without the government inhibiting you (with a few notable exceptions). The First Amendment does not in any way shield you from the consequences of what you say in private life, which means that if you publicly say racist, misogynist, discriminatory, and generally stupid things, you will face the consequences, from the disapprobation of your peers to the termination of your employment and potential non-employment by future employers. Employers are generally free to terminate your employment for any reason except those involving protected rights of non-discrimination. You can absolutely be fired if your public remarks create a hostile work environment for your coworkers and/or fall afoul of the core values of your company.

You are free to say what you like.

Others are just as free to refuse to employ you or not based on what you say.

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September 11, 2013
Celebrating the master teacher
A master practitioner is someone who can practice and demonstrate their abilities at the highest levels, from martial artists who can handle multiple armed attackers to Olympians who can defy world records and our imaginations at their feats of strength and speed. We admire these master practitioners for their skills that transcend technical competence to be true artistry.

Frequently, however, master practitioners are at a loss to explain their skills, to explain to someone not at their level how something works, how to learn something, how to improve. I once had a teacher of statistics in college who was an outstanding practitioner with many papers and publications to his name, but statistically, 90% of his class failed his course. Only grading on a curve saved the class from total defeat. Why? He was a master practitioner, but he couldn’t speak or teach to his 101-level students in the simplistic language they needed to acquire skills.

Conversely, there are plenty of teachers in the world who are proficient at the craft of teaching. We’ve encountered them throughout our lives occasionally, especially in our formative years. We look back with nostalgia at those teachers who succeeded at imparting the skills and knowledge we needed to progress, but realize that many can teach but not necessarily do. Some have out of date knowledge; others simply lack practical experience and can teach theory but not help us achieve our potential by putting that theory into action.

What is exceptionally rare is the master teacher who is also a master practitioner. I am fortunate to have met several in my life, two of whom I study with now, and one whose birthday I share in celebrating today.

The sign I have come to know as an indicator of a true master teacher is one who can present and demonstrate battle-tested information so that every student, regardless of skill level, walks away having learned their fill. So expansive is the teacher’s training that there’s something for everyone. Practitioners from the whitest of white belts to the eldest of senior master practitioners walk away with new insights, new ideas, and new things to work on.

Training at Stephen K. Hayes’ Fall Festival, 1998

It’s with that sense of tremendous gratitude and acknowledgement that I celebrate master teacher An-Shu Stephen K. Hayes‘ 65th birthday and wish him many more years of success in teaching, sharing, and guiding all of his students and his greater community. If you haven’t had the opportunity to train with An-Shu Hayes in his martial or meditation practices, I strongly encourage you to do so. Many of his meditation and mind science teachings have profoundly influenced my life for the better, and much of what I have to share is built on the bedrock of his material or sources he’s guided me to. He’s also teacher to my martial arts teacher, Mark Davis of the Boston Martial Arts Center, an equally important source of guidance for me in my life.

May you find as many master teachers in your life as I have found in mine, and may you have even greater opportunities to learn from them.

Happy birthday, An-Shu Hayes!

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September 9, 2013
Why being incurious will destroy your marketing
I’ve had the opportunity to do an awful lot of surveying recently as part of my work at SHIFT. The surveying I’ve been doing has been initiated by me on behalf of clients and the data is used to inform various marketing campaigns. What I’ve found while doing this work is that because the research isn’t necessarily intended for public consumption, I’m much more curious about the answers. I don’t know what the answers are, and when I get the results back, more often than not I’m surprised by them, and they spur additional questions and additional needed research.

Contrast this with what surveying is used for frequently in content marketing: to prove a pre-ordained conclusion or to bolster a pre-written piece of content. There’s nothing wondrous about that process. You know what the conclusion will be, or you’re irritated that the research didn’t pave a neat path to your already-produced content – and you treat the data, the truth, as an error because it’s not supporting your work.

This is what my friend and mentor Tom Webster refers to as incurious, and there’s a reason why incurious is a cardinal sin, a profanity in the world of research. It actually took me a little while to understand what the implications of incurious meant.

Being incurious removes all of the wonder.
Being incurious removes all of the mystery.
Being incurious removes all chances of discovery.
Being incurious removes a lot of the fun of real research.

Why? Instead of having a series of “Wow!” moments when the data leads you in unexpected directions from real research, being incurious transforms what could be inspiration or innovation into the displeasure of error. You’re emotionally conditioning yourself to feel and believe that research tools and practices can only deliver grim satisfaction and relief or frustration. Can you think of a more devastating practice for your business, for your marketing, for your mind than to transmute inspiration into disappointment? Can you imagine a faster way to never innovate again?

Here’s the other thing I’ve noticed with the surveying I’m doing now versus the content marketing I’ve done in the past, before my current role. When the goal and the desired outcome is new answers, you become very careful with the questions you ask. When the desired outcome is a pre-ordained answer, you don’t especially care what the questions are as long as they create the answer you want. As a result, you intentionally shut out all possibility for discovery. Innovation isn’t even given a chance to show up at the party.

So please, take Tom’s advice and take my advice. Stop using research tools to generate pre-ordained outcomes for content marketing. You’re not only harming your marketing, but you’re destroying your own sense of wonder and discovery when you pick those tools up.

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September 6, 2013
The balance of marketing
It’s said that the students of Aikido founder and grandmaster Morihei Ueshiba once asked him, “Sensei, how is it that you are never out of balance?“, to which Ueshiba-sensei replied, “I am constantly out of balance. You never see it because I am constantly correcting it.”

This is an incredibly powerful lesson for life, for martial artists, and yes, even for marketers. The idea of a perfect balance is a fiction. The idea that you can just push a button and have all of your marketing needs tended to by magical software or by a standardized cookbook of foolproof recipes is a fiction. Every day, your marketing drifts out of balance. Every day, if you’re good at marketing, you put yourself back in balance. There is no such thing as a status quo.

Imagine for a moment you’re faced with a tightrope. Fall out of balance enough in any direction and you’re off the rope. Now imagine that the rope is at a sharp incline. Even standing still in perfect balance results in your slide backwards. That’s a succinct image of marketing today (and life, too). You must stay in balance, and you must keep climbing. Stay in perfect balance by not moving and you reach the ground slowly but inevitably. Sway wildly and you meet the ground more forcefully and swiftly.

Think about how many things push you out of balance on your ascent to business success through marketing. An ad falls below a minimum click through rate. An email list drops in effectiveness. Google changes the rules on you. Facebook changes its UI again that day. Overreact to any one of them and you’re off the rope. Do nothing and you slide backwards. Only by embracing change, embracing the perpetual loss of balance and adjusting to it, can you actually succeed and make the climb.

Life is change. Life is loss of balance. So is marketing. Enjoy the climb!

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September 3, 2013
A difficult moral question of automation
The writing is on the wall for nearly every unskilled labor job as machines get better and better at performing complex but mundane tasks. A decade ago, robots could only handle precisely automated, measured tasks, such as assembling cars on an assembly line. Randomness caused breakdowns and failures, so jobs like picking strawberries or packaging heads of lettuce in plastic clamshell cartons still required humans. All of that is changing as robots get more sophisticated and better at those complex yet still mundane jobs. It’s rumored that some fast food restaurants are experimenting with fully automated production in which robots, rather than humans, flip the burgers and fries.

Scenes like this may become less common in a fully automated world

In the not so distant future, then, there could be a real end to child labor, to illegal use of labor, to harsh and dangerous working conditions in which people are dehumanized and made to work to their deaths or dismemberments in appalling labor conditions in developing economies. On the surface, no one would rationally disagree with the concept of stopping illegal child labor.

Here, however, is the difficult moral question. Which is worse: illegal labor conditions that are inhumane, or elimination of those jobs entirely, thus depriving the participants of their sources of income?

This isn’t a theoretical exercise; it’s happening now. Companies are finding it cheaper than ever to automate, and be able to legitimately say that their goods are made in America, on American soil, with American labor. What’s not said as much is that there aren’t nearly as many jobs. Those that are created are highly skilled jobs operating and training the robots, but the unskilled laborer is conspicuously absent.

What this leaves the planet with is too many people with too few jobs – very high structural unemployment. The robots can provide a future of plenty, save for the fact that an awful lot of people will not be able to afford to live in that future. It’s unrealistic to believe that there will be enough high skilled service jobs to offer employment to everyone, so where does this leave the world? I don’t have any answers, but feel free to leave yours in the comments.

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August 26, 2013
Awaken Your Superhero at INBOUND13: The Slides!
For those who attended or wanted to attend my talk at INBOUND13, here are the slides from Awaken Your Superhero: How Social Media Saves Lives.

Awaken Your Superhero: How Social Media Saves Lives from Christopher Penn

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August 21, 2013
Back to School Advice for Marketing Students: Forget About Personal Brand
As the school year ramps up, as students of business schools, colleges, and universities return to class and start soaking in the knowledge about the profession of marketing again, you’re going to hear an awful lot about personal brand. To the students out there, I’ll offer this advice: for the most part, ignore it.

Now, I don’t mean ignore common sense. For example, live moderately, party moderately, don’t do blatantly stupid things that will tarnish your name (because Google and our friends at the NSA remember all). That’s kind of a given, I would hope.

No, what I mean for you to ignore is the advice of personal branding gurus who will be asking you to mold yourself into a narcissistic perversion of who you really are, focused only on what other people will think of you when they Google you in the months and years to come. The perfect resume, the perfect social media profile, the blog with a few posts of corporate drivel designed to give the impression that you know more than you do – all of that is what I mean by ignoring your personal brand.

Fine, you might say, I can ignore pretending to be someone I’m not. But you may ask, won’t that put me at a disadvantage when it comes to job hunting time if some of my peers are pimping their professional rides?

The answer is simple (but not easy): it depends on who you serve.

When you serve yourself, the only person in the world who cares about you is you. This is the destructive trap that awaits those who obsess about their personal brands, and it’s not something that the personal branding industry is ever keen to admit.

When you do work that serves others in some capacity, when you do something that impacts other people’s lives positively, they will care about you. They will value you. They will build your personal brand for you, because others vouching for you counts hundreds of times more than you vouching for yourself.

Instead of tuning and perfecting a “brand”, go and do something effective. Build something worthwhile. Create something that impacts the lives of a few people. Develop an app that serves a useful purpose. Volunteer somewhere and create real change. Help someone else achieve their goals in some way. Teach someone something they didn’t know.

If you’re still worried about your personal brand, then make a bigger impact. Focus on scaling up the good you do and the people you serve until your community, your potential employers, your personal world can no longer ignore you for any reason. The more people you lift up, the more shoulders that will be offered for you to stand on and be noticed.

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August 20, 2013
ABCDEFG Basics of Staying Safe
A few people have, in the wake of the unfortunate events recently, asked for some general advice about keeping safe in unsafe and uncertain times and places. I’m going to assume that you haven’t clocked 20+ years in a dojo with these ABCDEFG basics.

Avoid being alone. Travel with a friend in potentially dangerous areas because criminals are predators and opportunists, and a pack is harder to deal with than someone solo.

Be ready. When you leave work or home, is your phone charged? Do you have your keys in an easily accessible place, and have you practiced unlocking car and house doors with one hand?

Communicate frequently. Do your friends know where you are? If you’re going to be going into questionable areas or traveling at quiet times of the day, maybe consider posting a little more frequently to Facebook, checking in a little more often, just to let others know about you – and have your friends let you know about them.

Distraction makes you a mark. The person who has their face buried in their phone, earbuds in, or is obviously not paying the slightest bit of attention to the world around them is the easiest target.

Expect trouble. Paradoxically, this is the best way NOT to be paranoid.
- When you walk somewhere, look for the places which would be a good place to hide, like stairwells or behind blind corners.
- If you own and have trained in the use of pepper spray or other defensive tools, get them out and practice walking and moving through life with them so that you don’t have to pull them out at the last second, after an attack has begun.
- When you walk into a place, immediately know where all of the exits are.
- If you’re looking to go somewhere, take the extra minute or two to check the local news and see if there’s trouble brewing.
Fight. If you read recent crime reports, waiting and hoping to be rescued doesn’t work very well any more. Commit to fighting your way out by any means possible and not giving up.

And last but certainly most important, Get Away. At the earliest possible opportunity, get away from danger and speed dial the police (and if you’re in America, your lawyer) as soon you’re safe.

Bear in mind, these are just the basic of the basics, and I’d strongly encourage you, if you’re concerned, to go find and take a self protection class on an ongoing basis.

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August 19, 2013

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