Your Idea Vs Your Pitch

When you are leading a meeting, as you will be when you present your idea, everything you do or say will be interpreted by your listeners. Your words and actions will not only signal how you feel, but also how you want others to behave during your time together.

To get yo...

When asking for a favour you are putting someone out of their way. Remember that asking for a favour is like selling someone a pitch to buy.

You must be empathetic and seek to add value to them too. Here's why: 

1. You can talk on their terms and what they can do. This way it becomes ...

Generating creative ideas is easy. Selling them to strangers is hard. The ability to sell an idea has as much to do with the seller's traits as the idea's inherent quality.

Judgments about the pitcher's ability to come up with workable id...