Get Your Ideas Approved: Job Skill #1: How to get your boss to approve anything you want to do
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Let’s say you’ve got this pretty cool idea. It could easily be a career booster. But whoa! Pump the brakes a bit. You’ve got this extremely difficult boss who’s not a big fan of your ideas or anybody else’s. Sitting on the idea, hoping your boss moves on, is such a waste. Instead, pick up the tool that has proven to get even the most intimidating bosses to approve ideas. It’s your choice.
Jon Spoelstra used this tool to get even the craziest ideas approved by his bosses, owners of pro sports teams.
- “I worked with Jon at two places, and it was stunning how he’d get things approved when most would have bet the ranch against him.” Howie Nuchow, Co-Head, CAA Sports
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“As he has done again and again, Jon gets approvals from difficult ideas that make a difference.” Scott O’Neil, CEO, Philadelphia 76ers
Jon got bosses of all types to approve things. We’re talking about tough bosses, cunning bosses, brilliant bosses, intimidating bosses, bosses who hated him, bosses who didn’t want to approve anything he did, screaming bosses, bosses that barely knew who he was, bosses who tolerated him and even wonderful, encouraging bosses. Any of these bosses sound familiar? You can use a system to get approvals from those types of bosses, approvals with no blood shed, no shouting, no intimidation, no arm twisting.
In Get Your Ideas Approved, you’ll learn:
- How to evaluate risks, develop a powerful playbook from scratch, and prepare, so your proposal receives the go-ahead.
- Techniques where you can turn a killer-objection into a convincing reason to approve.
- Real-world case studies from an expert to show you how to shoot for – and hit – impressive goals.
- A proven blueprint to minimize risk of an idea pitched to a boss that loves to crush ideas.
- Methods that will surprise you for quickly creating innovative angles to overcome setbacks.
Get Your Ideas Approved is the only guide you need to see your ideas—and your talents—recognized. If you like straight-talking expertise, practical scenarios, and easy-to-follow tactics, then you’ll love Jon Spoelstra’s door-opening path to getting your ideas approved by your boss.
Some may think this book is your unfair advantage in getting your boss to approve whatever you want to initiate. Well, it is. But, it’s only your advantage if you choose to use it.
If you’ve got the idea, you might as well get the approval to run with it. Start now.
You and your boss will be delighted that you did.
From Amazon readers:
★★★★★ This book skips the hype and gets directly to teaching you how to get your ideas approved and implemented.
★★★★★ You’ll be inspired by the stories to not just to get your ideas approved but to go after bigger, bolder, more outlandish ideas.
★★★★★ This book is a complete roadmap on how to check-mate objections.
★★★★★ If I’d had this 40 years ago, I’d own a small tropical island waking up every day laughing my head off.