How to Get the Team to Buy Into Your Ideas

by Michael Masterson (02/29/2008)

The most important ideas in business - the ones that revolutionize processes - are usually met with resistance, resentment, skepticism, and misunderstanding. To help your best ideas succeed, take this four-step approach:

1. Pre-sell the idea to the power mavens. Get feedback and make revisions.
2. Re-sell the same idea to the same power mavens. Get feedback and make revisions.
3. Make your big, formal presentation to the proper group.
4. Follow up with multiple small meetings with all the implementers until you have their cooperation.

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Goals

	"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."
	— Earl Nightingale: Author, The Strangest Secret, Lead the Field.

Golden Nuggets from my Readings today...

Today I was soaking it all in with my book, highlighter and notebook in hand.

 

I was reading John Maxwell's book Today Matters.

 

Some quotes from the book that are life changing are as follows:

 

"Make the decision once then manage it daily."

 

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Good Decisions - Daily Discipline = A plan without a Pay off

 

Daily Discipline - Good Decisions = Regimentation without Reward

 

Good Decisions + Daily Discipline  = A Masterpiece of Potential

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"Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal

of yourself to nothing" - Michael LeBoef

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"Time Management" by Randy Pausch, November 2007 New: see Randy's book about his "Last Lecture" at www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy_Book.html "Time Management" lecture, given by Randy Pausch (hosted by Gabriel Robins www.cs.virginia.edu/robins ) at the University of Virginia in November 2007. Randy Pausch (www.randypausch.com) is a virtual reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, co-founder of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (www.etc.cmu.edu), and creator of the Alice (www.alice.org) software project. The Powerpoint slides for this lecture can be found at www.cs.virginia.edu/robins/TM_slides.html and high-resolution downloadable versions of this and other lectures by Randy can be found at www.cs.virginia.edu/robins/Randy

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Success is knowing your purpose in life

Listening to John Maxwell last weekend he prompted me to ask the following:

 

What is my plan for personal growth? That is a powerful  question.

 

Do you know your plan for personal growth?

 

Success is knowing your purpose in life. Growth is not an automatic process. We

don't get better automatically. Keep learning and compounding.

 

The secret to your success is determined by your daily agenda.

 

A Weekend with Dr. John Maxwell

I spent this past weekend in Atlanta, GA at the Main Event. Dr. John Maxwell was one of the speakers who had some

jam packed wisdom to deliver. John Maxwell said this "The secret to your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Everyday you are preparing or repairing."

 

"Successful people make important decisions early in their life then manage those decisions the rest of their life."

 

Remember to add value to people everyday!

Quote on Action...

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

-- John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States