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The Art of Execution

by Chris Dannen

The 99% is stocked with smart and sanguine speakers.
The 99% Expands

by Tina Roth Eisenberg

The 99% Conference was hands-down the most inspiring conference I have yet attended. These guys are *good*!
Top 10 Things I Heard at the 99% Conference

by Zach Frechette

The speakers were a motivated bunch of overachievers who, through their own successes, have demonstrated a pronounced ability to turn thought into action.
13 Tried and True Practices For Making Ideas Happen

by Linda Tischler

The Behance 99% conference wound up on a high note with Pentagram designer Michael Bierut offering five sane and simple principles for maximum productivity, including 'Listen first, then design' and 'The problem contains the solution.'
The Behance 99% Conference, New York

by Fernanda Cohen

99% felt like an explosion of initiative, passion and unlimited will to make things happen, on and off the stage. Scott Belsky and Josh Rubin dared the audience of nearly 400 to not only be creative and generate ideas, but more importantly to actually 'execute them before they die.'
Behance - the Sweat Conference - Kicks Off

by Linda Tischler

Enough with the ideas, already! How do serial entrepreneurs or other remarkably productive folks, actually make things happen in their lives? It's a question with particular relevance to these times. When has the world needed more of both ideas and execution?
Five Rules for Getting Your Ideas Off the Ground

by Nicole Wong

Prioritize your projects so you don't sabotage yourself by trying to do everything.
Introducing the 99% Conference

by the Editors

99% is a one-stop solution for pipe-dream junkies and those with big breaks just around the corner.
Behance and Cool Hunting present the 99% Conference

by Leah Taylor

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more successful and influential group of "do-ers, not say-ers" assembled in one place.
Mark Your Calendar: The 99% Conference

by Josh Spear

The 99% Conference will be the kick in the ass that people with great ideas sometimes need.
Scott Belsky on Liberating Creative Talent in a Tough Economy

by Caroline Stanley

The current economic crisis presents an amazing opportunity to liberate creative talent from the traditional careers that we cling to in fear of going out on our own. For the first time in decades, the most talented people might actually follow their true interests rather than the masses.
Behance's Scott Belsky on productivity tools for the creative community

by Chikodi Chima

Especially in creative industries, [designers] are probably some of the most disorganized teams and individuals on the planet. The nature of idea generation often runs at odds with managing processes and maintaining productivity.
99%: A Behance & Cool Hunting Conference

by Adrian Lai

We're glad to finally see a conference that explores a side of the creative process that always gets overlooked - the execution.

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” — Thomas Edison

At 99%, Behance's think tank, we focus on what happens after inspiration — researching the forces that truly push ideas to fruition. Our profiles of proven idea makers, action-oriented tips, best-practices sessions, and annual conference are all designed to help you transform ideas from vision to reality.

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