Get ready to dismiss my new idea
Imagine you have just thought of a great idea for your employer. You have spent mental energy outside your working hours to put all the pieces together. Now you present your idea to your superior. He quickly says: “We can’t do that.”
We’ve all had this experience. Kind of empty, right?
Medium Contributor Neela wrote an article on how to influence upper management.
My apology: this link is not likely to work unless you are a Medium member.
This article suggests that CEOs are like crows looking for shiny objects. It is our responsibility to dress up our ideas so they are more palatable to this mentality. The article gives several interesting tips that should produce better results.
However, I don’t think the world is that simple. I believe many CEOs have garnered a lot of business experience in their climb to the top. They have developed an instinct. They also have the bigger picture, quickly assessing the new idea against all the other aspects of the business, like accounting, marketing, production, future objectives, and culture of the organization. In other words, many new good ideas just won’t fit and the CEO knows this. As well, an organization can only implement a few new ideas at any time. CEOs are paid to filter all the ideas and decide on the better ones. And, unfortunately, the unaccepted ideas cause disappointment from the people who thought them up.
CEOs are like football coaches who have to make many quick decisions. Which players to play. Which plays to run. If the coach makes more good decisions than bad decisions, they win more games. If the CEO makes more good decisions than bad decisions, the corporation stays solvent and hopefully profitable.
Having said all that, I envision a time where businesses will properly evaluate all good ideas rather than let one godlike individual make a quick decision to. You might be interested in my new model for commerce: The Spolu!
The spolu is an advanced co-operative where profits are shared between investors, employees, customers, and suppliers. Spolus will be regularly audited to ensure they have a social conscience. Spolus are more likely to solve challenges by committee than by individuals, which means good ideas will be more seriously considered. When idea thinkers understand why their ideas are rejected, they are less likely to take their rejection personally.
But let’s get back to the title of this article
I’m going to give you a chance to role-play a CEO. I am going to dress up my idea like a shiny silver spoon. Can I entice you to accept this idea?
You see, I am an inventor of an alternative democracy. I think my website now has a half-million words to explain how this new way works. But I know you don’t have time to read the website. So I am going to give you two pitches.
Remember, you are the CEO of whether the world moves to this better democracy:
First Pitch
Most of you reading this article probably don’t like Donald Trump as president.
I say I have a solution for that.
Interested? What is your CEO brain telling you? Should you click this link?
This link will lead you to a two-minute article.
Second Pitch
Most of you reading this article do not like the influence big money has on politics.
I say I have solution for that.
Interested? You, the CEO, can click this link.
Again, another two-minute read.
If these two pitches fail . . .
These two pitches are my best shiny spoons. I really don’t know how to dress them up any better.
If I can’t entice you to click these two links and read these short articles, then I can’t entice you to spend several hours to read my work to investigate whether this new democracy is worth working for.
More likely, you will go back to believing that somehow our broken democracy will somehow fix itself. But you have no idea of how this is going to happen, do you?
So here’s one thing for sure. If you do not click, the best result will likely be the political status quo the world is currently experiencing. Is this good enough for you?
Or maybe things need to get worse?
Should you take these two two-minute chances?
What does your CEO brain think?
After all, you are the CEO of whether or not we move to this better democracy.
Maybe better said, what does your “Let’s Save the World” brain think?
Did you notice I just gave you a few more shiny spoons?
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