Tag: Reality

Why Ideas Are Not Enough

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘We can create new realities for ourselves, but only when we let go of the ideas that we’re uniquely defective.’

‘Many of us have poor team alignment not because the people on our team are in conflict but because we’re not communicating to our team what we want, need, and dream to be.’

‘The more an idea matters to you, the more you’ll thrash, precisely because its success or failure is deeply important to you.’

‘Not doing your best work leads to creative constipation- at a certain point, you’re too toxic to take new ideas in because you’re not getting them out.’

‘The nature of our best work is that we’re never done, and many of us create work and projects that carry on even after our death. The finish of one project is just the start of many others.’

‘You have to let go of projects and ideas that aren’t allowing you to thrive so you can trade up to the projects that do.’

‘If a project doesn’t have start and completion dates, it’s not likely that it’s going to get done.’

‘It’s easy to see what led to the big win when you have been celebrating and keeping up with all the small wins along the way.’

‘People, in handling affairs,

Often come close to completion and fail

If they are as careful in the end as the beginning

Then they would have no failure.’

‘The more it matters to you, the greater the need for downtime and transition time after finishing your project.’

‘Every best-work project you finish leaves more of your fingerprints on the universe.’

Source:

Charlie Gilkey (2019). Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done

‘How To Get Buy-In For Your Ideas’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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No one knows everything. If you want to get results, move ahead, you need other people.

‘To get other people to buy into your ideas, you need to buy in first- or, … you need to convince up!’

‘Trying to build buy-in without understanding the prevailing mood of your audience is like walking into a funeral whistling ‘I’m walking on sunshine.’

‘No matter how good you might think your idea or initiative is, the only thing that matters when it comes to buy-in is how your audience feels.’

‘So much often remains unsaid in conversation, and the more you can do to demonstrate your sensibility to the unspoken stuff, the more likely you are to build real connection through your listening.’

‘We all experience mood swings; we all have our good days and our bad; we all say and do things we regret the next day. Being intentional enables us to chart a steady course in the face of these challenges.’

‘Catalyst don’t rest until they see the change become reality. Catalysts are true influences.’

‘Just as an inclusive mindset looks for differences, an abundance mindset adopts the view that conflict is a good thing. It’s a path to growth.’

‘At its core, an abundance mindset requires us to have great trust in our ability to achieve a good result without having control over the final outcome.’

‘Every time you seek to influence others to take action around an idea or initiative, you have to choose to influence them through ‘win me’ approach. You have to choose to be collaborative. You have to choose to be a champion of buy-in.’

‘A Great idea will stay just that- an idea- unless you can get others to work with you to turn it into reality.’

Source:

Simon Dowling (2020). Get Heard Get Results: How to Get Buy-In for Your Ideas and Initiatives