Green, Yellow or Red?
Every color is clearly represented at your company. Your job is to figure out who’s which color and then navigate your ideas accordingly.
There are the Green light people whom are always open to new ideas, looking for ways to keep things evolving and moving forward. These are certainly good people to present your ideas too, however depending on there credibility they might have the reputation of saying yes to everything and be less affective at helping you move your ideas forward than others.
Then you have the Yellow light people whom are cautious about anything you bring them. The Yellow color people aren’t dangerous to you but they will question the things you bring them. These are actually very good people to bounce ideas off of because they can help prepare you for the objections you are going to see later from the Red color people.
The Red light people, just like the red stop light, seem to have an uncanny knack of putting a stop to ideas on a regular basis.
Now it would be easy to say just present your ideas to the Green light people and be done with it. The problem is that most of the time you are going to need approval or at least support from all three, Green, Yellow and Red. Just like a traffic light your ideas success will be based on getting cohesive buy in from all three. In fact if you can bring a representative from each of those three groups your idea will become more powerful than if its supported by just one faction.
Get moving now and get that project green lighted.
