Some people struggle to get buy-in for their ideas while others seem to do it easily, sometimes even for the exact same idea. These people who are great at influencing organizations make it seem effortless.
What we don't see, though, is the work they are putting in behind the scenes to be influential in their organizations:
1. The strategic thinking that they put into creating a plan to influence the organization
2. The process & effort that they put in behind the scenes to get buy-in from people, and
3. The skills they have mastered through deliberate practice to operate smoothly in high stakes situations.
Influencing people and organizations requires:
- Leveraging human psychology to change minds:
- Accounting for organizational dynamics and power structures
- Using processes to build alignment and deep commitment
- Using principled decision frameworks to drive complex tradeoffs
- Improving core interpersonal skills
- Strengthening Emotional Intelligence and Positive Intelligence
- Build a custom plan to achieve your influence outcomes and grow skills
You can develop these techniques and skills to dramatically up-level your influence significantly. I’m doing a webinar that provides an in
I’m doing a Free Webinar on Influence Without Authority next Sat June 10th at 9AM https://lu.ma/ih2cnhst
This webinar will provide you with a map of how to improve your influence skills: Principles, processes, skills and frameworks to influence people, have more impact and grow in your career.
Looking forward to seeing some of you this weekend.
https://lu.ma/ih2cnhst
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The path that works for me is journaling. I start with naming my emotions and then what actions trigger those emotions and then what is the best/worst case, what can I do right now (options), pick best action item.
This process takes me from understanding my emotions to clear next action.
Unless I have a clear next action my mind can’t let go.
I agree that the technology is not perfect and everything you want it to be but for 99% of the population who get no walking at all, it is a wake up call and helps a ton. I lost 20lbs in 6 months because of wearing fitbit and jawbone.
Anecdata: I've lost 60 pounds in 12 months, simply just using free apps to (A) record my weight each morning and show a moving average (B) identify what surprisingly-high-calorie foods and snacks I was consuming.
...And no, the bathroom scale is completely non-networked, my smartphone simply prompts me to tap in the reading every morning.
If your goal is to "lose weight", then forget activity-trackers, because your main tactic should be controlling the input side. It's far easier to not eat 200 calories than it is to burn those 200 calories off later at the gym. It's also cheaper than buying expensive techno-nostrums / shiny-toys.
I've been perfectly happy with my Fitbit Ultra for the past couple years, but I don't expect it to be anything more than a pedometer with a nice online dashboard.
It's a small motivational tool, that's all. Nobody needs it, but it's nice. I've lost 28 pounds fairly quickly, thanks to a combination of walking and calorie counting with MyFitnessPal (Fitbit's food database is inferior).
I think that is a good point. The author said he was walking/biking 10k a day, so he probably could use a whole different class for device. For the person who is struggling to get up to 10k steps a day, these devices are useful.
I do think they really need to improve durability. My wife is on her third fitbit flex in 6 months.
And that the current crop of plugged-in youngins are the only ones that can do it. An interesting role reversal from when PG first started writing his essays - that young people needed to apprentice at larger boring companies first and that older folks made for more experienced entrepreneurs.
In the end, no one else can tell you when you're ready to make the leap. As a 30-something, one thing I've gained solace from is that I'm not the only one that had the entrepreneurial lightbulb go on after my 20's, like Jessica writes here:
"I spent 13 years in corporate America, mostly because I didn't understand what my other options were. I was hypnotized by the security of an established, respected company."
"You’ve either started a company or you haven’t. ”Started” doesn’t mean joining as an early employee, or investing or advising or helping out. ...... The important distinction is whether you risked everything, put your life on the line, made commitments to investors, employees, customers and friends, and tried – against all the forces in the world that try to keep new ideas down – to make something new."
That is what pissed me off. I was not a founder. I did not have a house and I was not going to take any more CC debt. But I put everything else I had on the line. And Chris is telling me that unless I founded a company everything I gave up meant nothing. Even founders draw the line some where right. After that second mortgage? Similarly I had my line drawn some where too but it was pretty deep.
Not the same as being a founder is not == nothing.
Being an early stage employee takes guts, it's respected and often they are going play a ginormous role in the success or failure of the company.
But's not the same as being a founder. There is nothing to get bent out of shape about. It's just different.
Similar to how the President bares the ultimate responsibility and stress even though the brave soliders in the field and the generals that command them pay the ultimate price at times.
In general I like Chris and think he is a very helpful person. Shares his knowledge. Just don't agree with this particular post of his. I was pissed after seeing techcrunch follow up so I had to rant too. :)
It is not about being proud. It is about the fact that it is not only the founders who face difficult choices and make a lot of sacrifices to get a company off the ground. :)
Priorities change with age when you get wiser but those were the choices I made in my 20s for a company that I was not a founder of.
What we don't see, though, is the work they are putting in behind the scenes to be influential in their organizations: 1. The strategic thinking that they put into creating a plan to influence the organization 2. The process & effort that they put in behind the scenes to get buy-in from people, and 3. The skills they have mastered through deliberate practice to operate smoothly in high stakes situations.
Influencing people and organizations requires: - Leveraging human psychology to change minds: - Accounting for organizational dynamics and power structures - Using processes to build alignment and deep commitment - Using principled decision frameworks to drive complex tradeoffs - Improving core interpersonal skills - Strengthening Emotional Intelligence and Positive Intelligence - Build a custom plan to achieve your influence outcomes and grow skills
You can develop these techniques and skills to dramatically up-level your influence significantly. I’m doing a webinar that provides an in I’m doing a Free Webinar on Influence Without Authority next Sat June 10th at 9AM https://lu.ma/ih2cnhst
This webinar will provide you with a map of how to improve your influence skills: Principles, processes, skills and frameworks to influence people, have more impact and grow in your career. Looking forward to seeing some of you this weekend. https://lu.ma/ih2cnhst