{"id":5130,"date":"2014-11-26T15:35:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conniedieken.com\/what-influence-lists-get-wrong\/"},"modified":"2014-11-26T15:35:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T20:35:35","slug":"what-influence-lists-get-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conniedieken.com\/what-influence-lists-get-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"What Influence Lists Get Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

GQ has released its list of the \u201c25 Least Influential People<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the problem: The list measures the wrong thing. Before you say, \u201cLighten up, Connie,\u201d please consider that I get it. I\u2019ve spent the past decade as an executive coach, but my previous career was in \u2013 gasp<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 journalism. I understand that the \u201cLeast Influential\u201d list is meant to be provocative, even profane, to win attention in a media-saturated world. Being GQ, the list is clever and targets the interests of its male audience.<\/p>\n

But even writer Drew Magary concedes that the very premise of the list is dead\u00a0wrong<\/em>. For example, as he notes about his #6 pick, foam finger-toting Miley Cyrus, \u201cWhat\u2019s sad is that it totally worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which means that she does have influence.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s get down to brass tacks.\u00a0What is influence?<\/em>\u00a0We\u2019ll begin with the root cause. Influence is the ongoing experience that others have with you. Now more than ever, you must earn and re-earn your influence where it\u2019s rooted \u2013 in others\u2019 hearts and minds. In our skeptical society, people are quick to judge, resist, and dismiss even the best and brightest among us. You cannot control the influence you have with others. Others assign it to you \u2013 or strip you of it, one experience at a time.<\/p>\n

Accepting that influence is a fluid, ongoing relationship with others is a crucial distinction whether you\u2019re trying to use your influence to contrtirube to your organization, your family, your world, or your pocketbook.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0outcome<\/strong>\u00a0of being influential is that your leadership presence can affect change. Either positive or negative change. When you have influence, you have gravitas. People seek your voice amid the noise. They willingly follow you. They give you first crack at their bandwidth \u2013 intellectual or otherwise. Your contributions gain momentum faster and make things happen.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0opposite<\/strong>\u00a0of influence is the neutral state. Non-influential people neither inspire nor turn people off. Their presence and ideas just hover, wasted.<\/p>\n

Every person on GQ\u2019s \u201cLeast Influential<\/em>\u201d list has influence: Tim Tebow. Pope Benedict. Paula Deen. And yes, even Miley Cyrus. Perhaps the sphere of their influence has changed, but make no mistake, each one is influential or their name wouldn\u2019t appear in an issue of a magazine that exists to provoke change.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0real<\/em>\u00a0issue is whether any of them \u2013 and more importantly, whether YOU \u2013 create ongoing experiences that lead others to seek your voice, trust you, and willingly follow your lead.<\/p>\n

Now that\u2019s a list worth making. That\u2019s the real deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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