by Stan Phelps | Aug 18, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
“I spent my whole life getting in trouble because I couldn’t sit still, be quiet, and do what I was told. Then at some point, as an adult, I realized I was getting paid to stand up, talk, and run my own business… The very thing that people spent their...
by Stan Phelps | Aug 17, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
“Don’t try to stand out from the crowd… Avoid crowds altogether.” — Hugh MacLeod One of my favorite quotes from Pink Goldfish 2.0. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn. Stan Phelps walks the walk. He stands out in the sea of sameness by modeling his own...
by Stan Phelps | Aug 16, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
Sometimes the opposite of a good thing is also a good thing. According to Barbara Nemitz, the author of “Pink: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Culture,” the color pink contains, “An extraordinary number of contradictory qualities. . . The pink...
by Stan Phelps | Aug 13, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
It was 1893 in London, and Douglas Macrae, the publisher of the Financial Times, was looking for a way to distinguish his newspaper from the competition, the Financial and Mining News.In Pink Goldfish 2.0, David Rendall and I profile the important decision he made....
by Stan Phelps | Aug 3, 2021 | Pink Goldfish
Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson and Tres Shannon founded Voodoo Doughnut in Portland, Oregon, in 2003. David Rendall and I had a chance to visit last week as the Pink Goldfish 2.0 Book Launch Tour. Voodoo is one of our favorite examples of Antagonizing.Back to the...
