Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

Author: Scott Belsky
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 9780670920556
Category : Creative ability in business
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Thomas Edison famously said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Every day, new solutions, revolutionary cures, and artistic breakthroughs are conceived and squandered by smart people. Along with the gift of creativity come the obstacles to making ideas happen: lack of organisation, lack of accountability and a lack of community support.Scott Belsky has interviewed hundreds of the most productive creative people and teams in the world, revealing a common trait: a carefully trained capacity for ideas execution. Implementing your ideas is a skill that can be taught, and Belsky distils the core principles in this book.While many of us obsess about discovering great new ideas, Belsky shows why it is better to develop the capacity to make ideas happen - using old-fashioned passion and perspiration. Making Ideas Happen reveals the practical yet counterintuitive techniques of "serial creatives" - those few who make their visions a reality.

The Messy Middle

Author: Scott Belsky
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241981433
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Silicon Valley is full of start-up success stories; every day stories emerge of a new company with the potential for a billion-dollar valuation and plans for global domination. But what can we really learn from these stories? How many of these start-ups are genuinely successful in the long term? When nine out of ten start-ups end in spectacular burnout, how can we ensure our own success story? While most books and press focus on the more sensational moments of creation and conclusion, The Messy Middle argues that the real key to success is how you navigate the ups-and-downs after initial investment is secured. It will give you all the insights you need to build and optimize your team, improve your product and develop your own capacity to lead. Building on seven years' of meticulous research with entrepreneurs, small agencies, start-ups and billion-dollar companies, Scott Belsky offers indispensable lessons on how to endure and thrive in the long term.

More Fearless Change

Author: Mary Lynn Manns Ph.D.
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0133966747
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
63 New and Updated Patterns for Driving and Sustaining Change “The hard part of change is enlisting the support of other people. Whether a top manager interested in improving your organization’s results or a lone developer promoting a better way of working, this book will give you tools and ideas to help accomplish your goal.” –George Dinwiddie, independent coach and consultant, iDIA Computing, LLC “Keep the patterns in this book and Fearless Change handy. ... These patterns transformed me from an ineffective ‘voice in the wilderness’ to a valued collaborator.” –Lisa Crispin, co-author (with Janet Gregory) of Agile Testing and More Agile Testing In their classic work, Fearless Change, Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising interviewed successful leaders of change, identified 48 patterns for implementing change in teams of all sizes, and demonstrated how to use these techniques effectively. Now, in More Fearless Change the authors reflect on all they’ve learned about their original patterns in the past decade, and introduce 15 powerful, new techniques–all extensively validated by change leaders worldwide. Manns and Rising teach strategies that appeal to each individual’s logic (head), feelings (heart), and desire to contribute (hands)–the best way to motivate real change and sustain it for the long haul. Learn how to Focus on the best things you can achieve with limited resources Strategize to build flexible plans and go after low-hanging fruit Get help from the right people in the right ways Establish emotional connections that inspire motivation and imagination Create an “elevator pitch” that keeps everyone focused on what truly matters Build bridges, work with skeptics, soften resistance, and open minds Uncover easier paths towards change, and build on what already works Sustain momentum, provide time for reflection, and celebrate small successes More Fearless Change reflects a profound understanding of how real change happens: not instantaneously in response to top-down plans and demands, but iteratively, through small steps that teach from experience. Best of all, as thousands of change agents have already discovered, its patterns are easy to use–and they work.

Making Hope Happen

Author: Shane J. Lopez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451666233
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Draws on research to offer strategies for adopting a high-hope attitude and shaping a successful future, and provides real-life examples of people who create hope and have changed the lives of their communities.

Making Things Happen

Author: Scott Berkun
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 0596517718
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Offers a collection of essays on philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. This book explains to technical and non-technical readers alike what it takes to get through a large software or web development project. It does not cite specific methods, but focuses on philosophy and strategy.

Zoom! ePub eBook

Author: Ian Sanders
Publisher: Pearson UK
ISBN: 0273755692
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
Included in the Independent’s ‘Top Ten Business Start Up Books’ 2012 Short, punchy and practical, this book is packed with powerful tools, techniques and ideas that will get you ready to launch your business in just 60 days. With useful advice on everything you need to make your business happen, from marketing, to logo design, accounts, registration, e-commerce and everything else in-between.

Change

Author: Damon Centola
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316457345
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
How to create the change you want to see in the world using the paradigm-busting ideas in this "utterly fascinating" (Adam Grant) big-idea book. Most of what we know about how ideas spread comes from bestselling authors who give us a compelling picture of a world, in which "influencers" are king, "sticky" ideas "go viral," and good behavior is "nudged" forward. The problem is that the world they describe is a world where information spreads, but beliefs and behaviors stay the same. When it comes to lasting change in what we think or the way we live, the dynamics are different: beliefs and behaviors are not transmitted from person to person in the simple way that a virus is. The real story of social change is more complex. When we are exposed to a new idea, our social networks guide our responses in striking and surprising ways. Drawing on deep-yet-accessible research and fascinating examples from the spread of coronavirus to the success of the Black Lives Matter movement, the failure of Google+, and the rise of political polarization, Change presents groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting new science for understanding what drives change, and how we can change the world around us.

How to Have a Happy Hustle

Author: Bec Evans
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 9781785785931
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Takes tried and tested techniques from business innovation to turn you into an ideas machine, with guidance and inspiration for every step of the way

Making It Happen

Author: Peter Sheahan
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742740464
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
Turning your good ideas into great results! Do you find yourself asking what's next? You have a ton of great ideas but you are unsure how to make them work. What's next? You have started your business but it is not making the money you'd hoped it would. What's next? This book is what's next. The world is not short of ideas, but it is short of people who know how to carry them out. If there is something more that you want - money, influence, impact - then this book will guide you through the five competencies you need to master to make it happen. You know you are ready! It is time to answer the call - the call to take control of your own life, to make a difference, to start your business, launch your charity, get promoted. It is time to take the good ideas in your head and make them a reality. Peter Sheahan has a reputation for making it happen fast. By 30, he had established two international multimillion-dollar consulting practices and authored five books, including the bestsellers Generation Y and Flip. Let him share with you the strategies that make Google, BMW and Goldman Sachs his clients.

How to Come Up with Great Ideas and Actually Make Them Happen

Author: Ewan McIntosh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909779044
Category : Educational innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
What could schools ever learn from luxury fashion houses, global tech, media and telecoms companies, and the world's biggest businesses of tomorrow - the startups? I work in schools and universities as well as in creative organisations and I've discovered there is much each could learn from the other when it comes to leading innovation. In the time I spend with school leaders and teachers, I see many struggling with overload, rejection and abortive attempts at innovation. Why does the formal education sector seem to have so much pain in creating fast change? And are the challenges faced in education any different to those faced by the fashion, media or telecoms companies? This book will help you achieve ambitious visions for learning through swift innovation. We will borrow from the people who invent what we all end up using tomorrow, create much from very little, and refine their ideas with a swiftness few of those in larger corporations, Government or schools have seen.