You have a great idea. Now three groups need to say yes.
You've been holding this idea for six months. It started as a napkin sketch and it has grown into a real proposal — a peer-mentorship program that could reach hundreds of students. You believe in it. That is going to be the easy part.
In the next hour you walk through three doors, back-to-back. First, the office of a colleague who's been burned by three failed rollouts already this year. Second, a senior leader who gives you sixty seconds and then decides. Third, the students the program is actually for — who have watched adults promise things before.
Nobody in those three rooms will hear the same pitch. That's not manipulation — that's the job. What you learn today is which version of yourself shows up in each doorway.