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99 Excuses For NOT Making Ideas Happen
We collect a shortlist of the most common excuses for not making ideas happen, and respond with tips for rallying yourself into action.
Action Method III: Make Time for Processing Your Next Steps
As you hurry through days filled with emails, phone calls, and meetings, action steps and references pile up. Why daily “processing time” is essential.…
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Action Method II: Keeping Projects Alive
Action Steps are the most crucial component in pushing projects to completion. Here, we look at smart ways to manage these essential tasks.
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Action Method I: Breaking Projects into Primary Elements
Working with a "bias toward action" is central to productive creativity. In this tip series, we offer an in-depth intro to Behance's own Action Method.…
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Financing Your Dream: What’s the Right Path?
Having the idea is the easy part. Financing it is the other. Thoughts on different funding models for creatives from entrepreneur Jeff Bussgang...
World Cup of Creativity: What Position Do You Play?
Could Pelé be Jonathan Ive in an alternate universe? Just in time for World Cup fever, we map the classic soccer personas on to creative teams.
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10 Laws of Productivity
Every idea is different. But when it comes to successful idea execution, patterns quickly emerge. Read on for 10 ways to amp your productivity...
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Seth Godin: The Truth About Shipping
Bestselling author Seth Godin on how to overcome that little voice in your head and start pushing your projects out into the world.
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Battling the Half-Life of Idea Execution
Is launching a new idea the same thing as "finishing" it? A reflection on the challenges of nurturing our ideas when the novelty has worn off.
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Lessons from Improv #4: Establish Context Quickly
Of all the improv games and exercises we learned, the ‘three-line scene’ was perhaps the most enlightening. The takeaway? Context is everything.
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Meet Until You're Weak in the Knees
Productivity comes to a grinding halt when meetings happen, which is why it's important to measure them with action steps--and to keep them short.
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Actually Make Something
For teams focused on long-term projects, tangible products can provide a measurable jolt of motivation.
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