Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision & Reality - Hardcover

Belsky, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159184312X ISBN 13: 9781591843122

Publisher: Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

How the world's leading innovators push their ideas to fruition, time and time again.

Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution is rare.

According to Scott Belsky, the capacity to make ideas happen can be strengthened by anyone willing to build their organizational habits and harness the forces of community. That's why he founded Behance, a company that helps creative people and teams across industries develop these skills.

Belsky has spent six years studying the habits of especially productive creative people and teams-the ones who make their ideas happen time and time again. After interviewing hundreds of successful creatives, he has compiled their most powerful-and often counterintuitive-practices, such as:

·Generate ideas in moderation and act without conviction
·Reduce all projects to just three primary components
·Encourage fighting within your team
·Seek competition and share ideas liberally

In an increasingly flexible and entrepreneurial environment, creative minds have the opportunity (and responsibility) to solve and change industries-but they can only do that if they overcome the obstacles. While many of us obsess about discovering great new ideas, Belsky shows why it's better to develop the capacity to make ideas happen-a capacity that endures over time.

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Review:

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. This book helps you with the hard part. (Guy Kawasaki, Co-founder of Alltop and former chief evangelist of Apple)

I hear people talking all the time 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 is full of wonderful and enlightening stories of those who have made their ideas happen. (JI LEE, Creative Director at Google Creative Lab and Founder of the Bubble Project)

From the Back Cover:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 159184312X
• ISBN 13: 9781591843122
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256