{"id":180,"date":"2006-08-22T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T20:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/how-to-sell-your-boss\/"},"modified":"2006-08-22T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T20:46:56","slug":"how-to-sell-your-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/how-to-sell-your-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Sell Your Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting on this for a long time. It&#8217;s time to get it out of my &#8220;inbox&#8221; &#8211; shame on me!<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhyatt.com\/workingsmart\/\">Working Smart<\/a> blog, Michael Hyatt writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhyatt.blogs.com\/workingsmart\/2004\/11\/how_to_sell_you.html\">How to Sell Your Boss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Selling your boss is critical to your success. If you can\u2019t get your boss\u2019s approval when you need it, you are not going to go very far in your career.<\/p>\n<p>As the president of a company, I spend a good deal of time listening to proposals. Those doing the pitching usually need my approval to proceed with their project. Frankly, I never cease to be amazed at how poorly most people do in this kind of situation. Unfortunately, most of us never receive any formal training [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is moderately long but contains a lot of fantastic advice. I&#8217;ve been caught in most of the traps that he refers to over the years. Hopefully, never again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting on this for a long time. It&#8217;s time to get it out of my &#8220;inbox&#8221; &#8211; shame on me! In his Working Smart blog, Michael Hyatt writes: How to Sell Your Boss Selling your boss is critical to your success. If you can\u2019t get your boss\u2019s approval when you need it, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FA-2U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}