English Bus/Financial Management

Hello everyone,

“You heard me say some important things,” Kent told the consultant, “but everyone went to sleep. What happened?”

Admitting that the points Kent made were important, the consultant nevertheless told him why people tuned out: “You didn’t build any bridges to those who didn’t immediately agree with you.”

Years later, Kent understood what had gone wrong. “I had a vision,” he recalled, “and I was waiting for everyone else to agree.

I was not going to put my vision out for revision—***it would fly as it was, or not.***”

Kent hadn’t realized that the quality of a leader’s idea is not the only thing people consider when making up their minds about whether to engage with the leader

Does "it would fly as it was, or not" mean accept my idea as it is or don't accept it at all?

Thank you.