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Making Ideas Happen

Scott Belsky

Making Ideas Happen

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Making Ideas Happen takes us on an enlightening journey into the world of creativity. An idea, the initial spark of potential in the making, needs to go through a series of stages to become something real. Scott Blesky takes the reader on an exploration into the world of ideas to demonstrate how to make them real by explaining that ideas alone are not enough; they need to be shared, and taken under the wing of a leader who is able to implement them. Ideas can be made real by applying a series of steps that include targeted action, impeccable discipline, and efficient management of scarce resources such as time and energy. 

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Analysis and key concepts

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The challenge for creative people is not generating ideas, but turning those ideas into reality

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The first essential quality for making ideas happen is organisation

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The magic formula to bring ideas into fruition is made up of a certain skill set

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The biggest obstacles to bringing ideas into fruition are within

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Bringing ideas to life is an opportunity and a responsibility

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Take-home message

01. The challenge for creative people is not generating ideas, but turning those ideas into reality

When you think about a creative person, the first thing that comes to mind is someone who is a continuous source of great ideas. In realty, creativity is actually something much more complex. Ideas do come to some people very easily, but it takes more than that to turn them into reality. So, ideas are only the first step towards realising one's creativity. Many ideas will stay in someone’s mind for a long time, and then disappear; others will simply come and go, and a small percentage of them might see the light of day and actually be made into something real.

Therefore, it would seem that the real struggle people have is not so much coming up with ideas, but actually doing something with them. This requires sound organisational skills, a wider community of people, and solid, credible leadership.

02. The first essential quality for making ideas happen is organisation

03. The magic formula to bring ideas into fruition is made up of a certain skill set

04. The biggest obstacles to bringing ideas into fruition are within

05. Bringing ideas to life is an opportunity and a responsibility

06. Quotes

07. Take-home message

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Many useful tips to:

  • Learn some techniques to turn ideas into reality.
  • Improve your productivity through more effective organisation.
  • Appreciate why many ideas never become anything more than just that.
  • Learn to organise, distinguish priorities from urgent matters, and take action.

Scott Belsky is a young American entrepreneur. Having developed the online portfolio platform, Behance, in 2006, he went on to make the ranking in the “100 most creative people in business” list in 2010. Today, Belsky helps creative people be more productive. His motto is “it’s not about ideas, it's about making ideas happen.” Belsky works for Adobe, which bought his first company, Behance, in 2012, and he has also worked as a consultant for Pinterest, Uber, Cheddar, OpenSea, and many other companies.

Publishing house:

Penguin

Year:

2011

Pages:

256

ISBN:

978-0670920600