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We live in a lightning fast world. How do you make sure your business is keeping pace? According to today\\u2019s guest, the answer is by embracing failure and by preparing to change\\u2013fast.

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Meet Brandi Boatner, the Social and Influencer Communications Lead for IBM Global Markets. Brandi has been working with IBM since 2010, and she has also served as a Digital Experience Manager for IBM Global Technology Services. She\'s currently the Chair of the IBM Black Network of New York Business Resource Group (BRG), and she\'s a founding member of the IBM Marketing Communications and Citizenship MCC Diversity Council. Through her work with IBM, she\\u2019s become an expert in adopting an agile framework to build more flexible, fast-paced teams.

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Follow along as Brandi shares the inside-baseball on becoming an agile marketer, ways to embrace failure (and why you should!), plus the best advice she has ever received.

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In This Episode

• What it means to be an agile marketer
• How agile principles apply to everyday tasks
• Ways to combat (or keep up with) warp speed change
• The best career and life advice Brandi\\u2019s ever received
• How mindfulness can transform your life

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Quotes in This Episode

\\u201cFail fast and embrace that failure so that you can iterate, course correct, and then try again can apply an agile framework to whatever it is that [you\\u2019re] doing.\\u201d \\u2014Brandi Boatner

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\\u201cWe live in a three-second world, right? A three second, right-swipe world. If I can\'t do what I need to get done in 10 days, why am I doing this? Why?\\u201d \\u2014Brandi Boatner

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\\u201cI\'ve gotten rid of that mindset of, \\u2018This has to be perfect.\\u2019 It does not have to be perfect. There has to be progress made on the task\\u2026 I celebrate progress not perfection.\\u201d \\u2014Brandi Boatner

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\\u201cChange and comfort can\'t coexist, so you should be willing to have that uncomfortable conversation in order for you to implement the changes that you need as a professional and then as a business.\\u201d \\u2014Brandi Boatner

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\\u201cPeople can define their success differently. You might ask somebody else, and they say success is money. Someone might say success is happiness, somebody might say anything, but for me I would really say success, for me, is growth. \\u201d \\u2014Brandi Boatner

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Resources

Email Brandi or connect with her on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram

IBM

Emotional Intelligence 2.0