Sunday, January 9, 2011

Influence vs. Cajoling

The following is an excerpt from The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life...~ Roz and Ben Zander:

Influence is about getting others to buy-in to your vision or ideas, it's about enrollment.  Enrollment is not about forcing, cajoling, tricking, bargaining, pressuring or guilt-tripping someone into doing something your way.  Enrollment is the art and practice of generating a spark of possibility for others to share.  Our universe is alive with sparks.  We have at our fingertips an infinite capacity to light a spark of possibility.  Passion, rather than fear, is the igniting force.

Abundance, rather than scarcity is the context.  So, the practice of influence is about giving yourself as a possibility to others and being ready, in turn, to catch their spark.  It is about paying together as partners in a field of light.

So I ask you, are you open to catch someone else's spark?  Are you operating from a context of scarcity or abundance?  Are your fears extinquishing your spark? 

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