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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
Feb. 6, 2017
So far in 2017, I’ve:
This time around, I’m here to offer some valuable insights into how we get started. To do that, I will share this list of 20 essential questions the successful folks of Corporate America ask before they embark on any new project:
- What are the objectives?
- How do you define success?
- If the project doesn't succeed, what are the implications?
- Why is this project so important?
- What are the most important dates?
- What are the most important decisions that need to be made?
- What will prevent us from making those decisions?
- What are the biggest obstacles to getting this done?
- Who influences but doesn't own?
- Who has the potential to be an obstacle?
- What are the project's greatest assets?
- How can we best leverage those assets?
- What are the most important areas we should always focus on?
- How much risk are you willing to take to accomplish this?
- What barriers have you encountered in the past about this issue?
- What keeps you up at night about this?
- What topics haven't we discussed?
- What topics would you rather not discuss?
- What is your personal passion about this project?
- What will this mean to you when we succeed?
Here are five follow-up questions of my own, directed at “activists”:
- Have you ever heard even one of the above questions honestly asked with your circles?
- What kind of reaction would you get if you proposed such questions?
- Have you attained any long term success with your actions?
- What are you willing to do right now to become successful?
- Are you willing to surrender the purity litmus tests so you and your comrades can learn how to win -- even from those you strongly disagree with?
Activist Tip: Success leaves clues. Study how winners win. Start winning.
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Mickey Z. is currently writing two books, a political memoir called How to Change Minds & Influence the Future: Rebuilding Activism From the Ground Up (Microcosm Publishing) and a graphic novel entitled stain red. In the meantime, he can be found here.
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