Get Your Ideas Approved: Job Skill #1: How to get your boss to approve anything you want to do (Wonderful Ideas: Created and Approved! #1)

WITNESSES to APPROVALS
 
"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
 
"I just thought Jon's ideas just came to him. Like poof!  Now I understand this magical guru of ideas actually had an idea plan, committed to practice and then a stalwart defense of that idea." Buffy Filippell,Founder, Teamwork Online
 
"I am fortunate to have started my career in sports working and learning from Jon.  As he has done again and again, Jon gets approvals from difficult ideas that make a difference."
Scott O'Neil, CEO, Philadephia 76ers

"I have had the good fortune to work with some of the best and brightest minds in the sports and entertainment business. By far, the brightest mind, the most entrepreneurial leader and thinker is Jon. He is brilliant at ideas, but even better at converting them into reality."   Tim Leiweke, CEO, Oak View Group (former CEO of Staples Center & LA Kings)

"Jon presented some out-of-the-box ideas during my time as owner of the Portland Trail Blazers. It got to the point where even if the idea was far-out,I'd sit back and just enjoy watching how he got me to say yes. In some respects, it wasn't fair."
Larry Weinberg, former owner of the Portland Trail Blazers
 
"Jon's most exceptional skill is he got things--breakthrough things--approved that most guys wouldn't even try. And, he got those things approved with no bloodshed, no shouting, no arm twisting." Steve DeLay, owner, Macon Bacon
 
"Jon has seldom heard no....his conviction for what he believes in can overwhelm you.
When he has heard no, few have been better in turning a no into an approval." Brett Yormark, Co-CEO of RocNation Unified

"I remember seeing many of the creative ideas Jon brought to life. I often wondered first, 'How did he think of that?. Then a second later, 'How the heck did he ever get that approved?' Now I know." Steve Patterson, President, Pro Sports Consulting

"Jon Spoelstra was a mentor for me in my early sports career.  His invocations set the pace for the entire sports world--he got new exciting things approved!" 
Tod Leiweke, CEO, NHL Seattle
 
"This is like a master magician showing you step-by-step how to do hismost famous magic trick, but this is better--you learn the secret on how to getyour boss to approve whatever you want to do."
Joe Sugarman, Chairman, BluBlocker Sunglasses
 
"Jon had this crazy idea, and I personally saw him get an impossible approval from a gauntlet of bosses. We were all amazed."
Mike Nealy, CEO,Global Events Group
 
"I wish I had known about The Outrageous Approval Tool decades ago. It would have been a godsend in some difficult jobs I've had in the past."
Darrell Rutter, CEO, TMG, Inc.

 
 

★★★★★ 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.

★★★★★ A good read with an uncommon approach to persuasion.

Jon Spoelstra got bosses of all types to approve things, even the craziest ideas approved by some of the world’s toughest bosses—owners of pro sports teams. 

 We’re talking about tough bosses, cunning bosses, brilliant bosses, bosses who hated him, bosses who didn’t want to approve anything he did, bosses that loved him, government bosses and even wonderful bosses.

One word of warning: Get Your Ideas Approved is not a book about negotiations.

With negotiations, there’s often give-and-take. There are compromises. There’s settling on a middle ground.

None of those are applicable in this book.

This book is about getting your idea approved by your boss; about getting your idea approved the way you want to make it work.  This is not about taking your idea and get it watered down.

This book is the proven blueprint on how to get the approval you need and want without taking a risk.

In Get Your Ideas Approved, you’ll learn:

• How to evaluate risks and then develop a powerful playbook from scratch, so your proposal receives the welcome go-ahead
• Techniques where you can turn a killer-objection into a convincing reason to approve
• Real-world advice from an expert to show you how to shoot for—and hit—the impressive goals you targeted
• A proven blueprint that minimizes risk of pitching a blue-sky idea to a boss that loves to squash ideas. 
• Methods for quickly overcoming setbacks, creating innovative counters, inspirational examples, and much, much more!

Get Your Ideas Approved is the sure-fire 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.  It is about time.

Here’s your advantage on a platter. If you’ve got the idea, go ahead, use this tool, run with it. If you don’t have the idea, get cracking.  You and your boss will be delighted that you did.

You’ve got this idea that is pretty cool.  It could easily be a career booster.  But, hold on, pump the brakes a bit.  You’ve got this problematic boss who’s not a big fan of anybody else’s ideas, let alone yours.  Empower yourself by using a proven tool to get your idea approved by that same difficult boss. Start today.

Jon Spoelstra spent most of his adult life running pro sports teams, first NBA teams and then a group of seven minor league baseball teams, and then consulting with countless other pro teams.

With each job, there was at least one (seemingly) off-the-wall wacky crazy idea that was a long shot for the approval of the team's owner.That's where the fun began.
 
Some of those approvals are featured in Get Your Ideas Approved.Other approvals were turned into stories in his three marketing books: Ice to the Eskimos, Marketing Outrageously, and Marketing Outrageously Redux.  All of Jon's books are available on Amazon.com.

A strange thing about Approvals is that once you get one, it's even more fun to get another.  Even to collect them.  Start your collection today.