Promoting your vision means promoting yourself—directly and indirectly. While the intent of your promotion may not be self-promotion, the fact remains that taking a persuasive stance increases your visibility.
Actions are couched in braided threads. You may not intend to self-promote, but it is a factor. What you do can seldom be viewed in terms of stark black-or-white factors alone. Typically, there will be multiple reasons that explain why that action was taken, and multiple consequences that will evolve from that action.
Yes, there will be greater attention paid to you in the course of proposing, developing, and implementing your idea. But to equate idea promotion with self-promotion entirely would be wrong. Know that more people ...
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