Managing with the Power of NLP: Neurolinguistic Programming; A Model for Better Management, Second Edition

Chapter Two. From Ideas to Action

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• How well do you communicate?

• Your map of reality

• How the NLP model of communication works

• Your information filters

• How your physiology impacts your results

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Have you noticed how some managers seem to have ideas which they turn into the right kind of action to get desired results? Other managers have plenty of ideas which rarely get to see the light of day. If you want to learn how to put ideas into action, go and shadow a chief executive for a week or so. The very nature of their job is to execute, and you will find they have a sense of urgency to get actions into their calendar. Alternatively, learn about the patterns of your own thinking and understand the process that leads from idea to action. ...