Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
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- “Belsky provides a compendium of the knowledge one needs to turn a great idea into something tangible.”
- “A Swiss Army knife for ideas.”
- “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. This book helps you with the hard part.”
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About the Book
Ideas are worthless if you can't make them happen.
Many of us believe that great ideas inevitably lead to success. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whether it is the perfect solution for an everyday problem or a bold new concept for a creative masterpiece, you must transform vision into reality for an idea to have value.
This book chronicles the methods of exceptionally productive creative leaders and teams – companies like Google, IDEO, and Disney, and individuals like author Chris Anderson and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh – that make their ideas happen, time and time again.
Making Ideas Happen will change the way you work:
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Overcome “reactionary workflow” and start pushing ideas forward.
You can easily spend your entire day just responding to incoming communications – email, texts, voicemails, tweets, etc – while never finding time to push the big, meaningful ideas forward. Learn proven methods for organizing with a bias-toward-action, prioritizing amidst a creative process, and pushing bold projects to completion.
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Let go of the myth of the lonely creative genius.
Understanding how to leverage your community for feedback, resources, and exposure is crucial to gaining traction with your ideas. Discover the advantages of broadcasting your ideas early, seeking out competition, tapping into the power of “Circles,” and overcoming the stigma of self-marketing.
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Push through the “project plateau”... and finish!
Most ideas get lost in that dreaded period of execution where your natural creative tendencies turn against you. Acquire methods for thriving when long-term vision is not enough. You will learn how to short-circuit the traditional rewards system, fight your way to breakthroughs, and gain strength from the doubts you will face along the way.
Early Reviews
- “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. This book helps you with the hard part”
- “From his years spent understanding how the most productive entrepreneurs and creative minds operate, Scott Belsky provides a compendium of the knowledge one needs to turn a great idea into something tangible. This is a book about execution, and when it comes to going from an idea to a real business, execution is everything.”
- “If your creative team or organization struggles to implement their best ideas, or if you find that your own creative projects languish unfinished, you need Making Ideas Happen. In this readable, practical guide, Scott Belsky draws on his work with hundreds of creative people, groups, and companies to explain techniques for addressing the neglected part of the creative process: How to ensure that good ideas will become a reality.”
- “In one little volume, Belsky shows how to execute simply, boldly, powerfully. He reveals the forces and methods that push projects to completion - and how they are accessible to all of us. Practical and perfect ways to implement your ideas with peace of mind.”
- “All the time I hear people talking about great ideas that never come to life. This book is like a Swiss Army knife for ideas. It offers step by step tools to turn ideas into action and it's full of wonderful and enlightening stories of those who made their ideas happen and how they did it. "Making Ideas Happen" confirms my conviction that ideas are nothing until you make them happen.”
- “Scott Belsky has observed how designers think and has created a way to help them make the complex clear - and the actionable achievable - within the rush of creativity that defines their mind's workspace. His ideas provide both an affective and effective way for managing ideation, iteration and execution... it is both gratifying and successful.”
- “Belsky's approach has made my life even simpler. "Making Ideas Happen" demonstrates that ideas of any magnitude are achievable by simply taking them one step at a time. Looking deep into the creative process, this book forges a new path for the wandering genius. Belsky offers an illustrated map on how to get to the destination of your great ideas.”
- “There are techniques in this book that can turn disorganized creative prima donnas into organized creative prima donnas. It’s full of terrific lessons in how to keep great ideas alive.”
- “Ideas are important, but executing on those ideas is the crucial component that so many of us forget about. Belsky lays out practical principles and a clear plan for getting things done. I highly recommend this book!”
- “Creative talent is useless without great execution. Making Ideas Happen is a must-have guide for leaders across industries that want to push creativity towards a tangible outcome.”
