How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea
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How to pitch a brilliant idea
Kimberly D. Elsbach
HBR, 2003
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Premise
• Entrepreneurs come up with great pitches to show how their plans or concepts are attractive, timely durable, and high-margin
• Corporate decision makers don’t “get it”
• Why?
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3 prototypes• Showrunner: “professionals” who combine
creative inspiration with production and technical know-how
• Artist: quirky and unpolished, prefer creativity over reality
• Neophyte: tend to be – or act as if they were – young, inexperienced, and naïve, but are prepared to “do the impossible.”
Project yourself as one of these three creative types and convince the “catcher” s/he is a creative collaborator and you improve your chances of selling the idea
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Traits we use to stereotype “creatives”
• Unconventionality
• Intuitiveness
• Sensitivity
• Narcissism
• Passion
• Youth
We use visual and verbal matches with these models and remember only the characteristics that identify the pitcher as a particular type
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How to succeed
• Catchers overwhelmingly look for showrunners
• Artists and neophytes can wind through enchantment and charm
• Showrunners are also the most dangerous because they can blind the catcher through glitz