How to rule the world

I love a whiteboard brainstorm. This one's derived from a conversation with a coworker about how to influence within an organization, but I think it has broader applications:

1. Engage with genuine interest and confidence.
2. Develop an opinion.
3. Create an expression of that opinion.
4. Publish it. Speak it. Embrace it. Evangelize it. Live it.

(rinse, lather, repeat)