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Business history is dotted with stories of opportunities lost because people within companies were unsuccessful in pitching their ideas. And those neglected opportunities were consequential. Competitors seized market share that could have been kept and increased if the good idea had been adopted. Take the minivan. Who came up with that idea — Chrysler? No. Ford engineers came up with that idea — they called it the van-wagon — but they couldn’t convince management that customers would buy it. In fact, one executive who endorsed it, Hal Sperlich, was fired and went on to lead the effort at Chrysler, which then dominated the minivan world for many years. Ford lost out. … -John A. Daly, Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others
Fiction Writing Prompt: Write a story about an inventor whose brilliant invention is rejected.
Journaling Prompt: What do you wish you had invented and why?
Art Prompt: Minivan
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Entertain your audience with a story about something that happened in a minivan.
Photo Credit: ASurroca on Flickr
Prompt #542 The Minivan was written by Liz Andra Shaw and was originally published at The Writing Reader.
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