Making Ideas Happpen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision & Reality

Belsky, Scott

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9781596599956: Making Ideas Happpen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision & Reality

ISBN 10: 1596599952 ISBN 13: 9781596599956

Publisher: Gildan Audio, 2010

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If you care about your art, your job or your market, you really have no choice but to read this book (Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow and Linchpin)

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. This book helps you with the hard part (Guy Kawasaki, former Apple guru and author of The Art of the Start)

This book is like a Swiss Army knife for ideas (Ji Lee, Creative Director at Google Creative Lab)

This is a book about execution, and when it comes to going from an idea to a real business, execution is everything (John Battelle, co-founder of WIRED and BoingBoing)

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 (Teresa Amabile, Director of Research, Harvard Business School)

There are techniques in this book that can turn disorganised creative prima donnas into organised creative prima donnas (Chuck Porter, co-chairman, Crispin Porter + Bogusky)

Belsky offers an illustrated map to get to the destination of your great ideas (Scott Thomas, Design Director, Obama Presidential Campaign)

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

'Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. This book helps you with the hard part'
Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist of Apple and author of The Art of the Start

Edison famously said that genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution is rare. While most books tell you how to release your creative potential, Scott Belsky shows that success is not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

According to Belsky, ideas don't happen because they are great - or by accident. Creative success is a matter of rethinking methods and increasing focus, while rewarding old-fashioned passion and perspiration. This bestselling book reveals the three steps vital to making any idea happen: getting organised, collaborating, and leading effectively.

There are too many ideas in the world, and not enough action. Here, at last, is a systematic approach to creative organisation and productivity.

'This is a book about execution, and execution is everything'
John Battelle, co-founder of WIRED and BoingBoing

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