The world is full with people that define success in a single way.
Nothing bad with that, but the reminder is that success has different shapes, it comes at different times, and it is your responsibility (not theirs) to define how success looks like for you.
If you’re a marketer and can only talk to marketers, you are not going to get far.
If you’re a salesman and can only talk to sales folks, you are not going to get far.
If you’re a developer and can only talk to developers, you will still have job security, but you are not going to get far.
If you’re a strategist and can only talk to business people, you are not going to get far.
Build networks instead, inside and outside of your turf. Learn to speak different languages and to talk to different people. Be a mediator and an initiator.
That’s when you are going to get far.
The difficult part is not taking a decision. The difficult part is to follow through with the decision.
That’s why we end up in meetings to discuss the same things over and over again, to reassess, to reconsider, to go around the table. That’s why we feel stuck, incapable of progress, lacking development and purpose. And that’s why we feel frustrated, we frustrate others, and we eventually drift away in the wrong direction.
Rejection does not have to go hand in hand with humiliation.
No matter how frustrated we are for the situation, no matter how much we have pondered and considered and reviewed, no matter how much time we have lost. In the moment when we deliver a decision of rejection, history is meaningless, and all that matters is helping the person we reject to maintain their face and rebuild their confidence, so that they can move on and do fantastic things.
In fact, rejection is more easily accepted when it does not come with humiliation attached to it.
First, you need to figure out what story you have to tell.
Second, you need to figure out who might be interested in the story you have to tell.
Third, you have to tell the story.
One and two might be interchangeable, and actually it is generally a good idea to search for a lock and then fashion a key.
But the problem is that most just go with three.
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