“The fastest way to extend your influence is to tap into people upon you,”
In the Mindvalley online course, Ultimate Leadership, Keith Ferrazzi mentions, “The fastest way to extend your influence is to tap into people upon you,” which encapsulates well what happened to me. I tried to add value as much as I could; many doors have opened by doing so. What is interesting is that Keith comes from an impoverished social class. His father was a steelworker, and his mother was a cleaning lady. His father knew his son had to go to an excellent private school, and he found a way to convince the director of a private high school to take his son and provide him with a scholarship. His father wasn’t elite, but he was bold enough to ask for help. He understood he had to tap into the people above him. Keith went on to graduate from Yale University. Keith was less than thirty years old when he became the youngest CMO (chief marketing officer) of Deloitte US. How did he do this? He succeeded in having a great relationship with a senior executive. As a passion project, he wrote and published a report on leadership, comparing the different leadership styles of other Fortune 500 companies. The executive knew about the report and was astonished by the great work, and as a result, promoted Keith, first to partner and then CMO of the company (Mindvalley, 2022).
Mindvalley. Introducing Ultimate Leadership by Keith Ferrazzi. Accessed, January 27, 2022.
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