Making Ideas Happen

Have you been one of those people or on a team where plenty of ideas are presented but there never seems to be execution?  Scott Belsky published a book called "Making Ideas Happen" Here are some tips from his book that may help you or your team follow through.

1. The way you organize projects, prioritize, and manage your energy is arguably more important than the quality of the ideas you wish to pursue.

2. Extremely productive and accomplished people and teams capitalize on the power of community to push their ideas forward.

3. Putting one person in charge of managing next steps tends to not work.  When tasks are written in your own handwriting, in your own idiom, they remain familiar and are more likely to be executed.

4.  You need to say "no" more than you say "yes" and you need to build a team and culture that helps kill ideas when necessary.

5.  The process of creation is deeply consuming and lined with narcissism.  We fall in love with our ideas and become both certain and protective.

6.  Accountability, one of the most crucial benefits of engaging with your community, is what binds you to the relentless pursuit of your ideas.

Let those creative juices flow!  But remember.  The name of the game is execution.