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Welcome to John Maeda's Blog: maeda.pm. Sharing a passion for product and data, grounded in technology / business / design curiosities with a dash of leadership reflections.

  • CX Report
  • Safety Eats The World
  • How To Speak Machine
  • Dataful is Beautiful
  • ↓ ✭ Leadership
    • » Creative Leadership (2009-15)
    • » Traditional vs Creative Leadership (2009)
    • » Start-ups vs End-ups (2013)
    • » My Four Rules (1999)
  • Design.Co
  • Maeda.Dev
  • Newsletter
  • youtube
  • Pinterest
  • @johnmaeda

Presence to Competence to Mastery

I think this framework is something is scribbled down from Hajj Flemings.

The central idea is that there are three phases to consider:

  1. Online presence
  2. Online competence
  3. Online mastery

I’ve heard this described by a small business expert in Philadelphia as:

  1. Kindergarten business
  2. Sixth grade business
  3. Twelfth grade business
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    June 24, 2018
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