making ideas happen
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PRESENTED BY :SINDOOR NAIK1365
ABOUT THE AUTHOR• Scott Belsky is an American
entrepreneur and best-selling
author.• Best known for co-creating the
online portfolio platform, Behance,
Inc. In 2010.• Behance is a platform to showcase and
discover photography, graphic design,
illustration, and fashion.
IDEA ! • A probable solution
• Anything that may simplify a complex problem
• An alternate method
• Anything that may maximize output
THE PROBLEM !
We have so many great ideas, but most of them never see the light of day
Why do most ideas never happen?
• The reason is that our own creative habits get in the way.
IDEA TO REALITY
Avoid a “Reactionary Workflow”
How to avoid this reactionary workflow?
• Schedule “windows of non-stimulation” every day.
• To aggregate all messages in a central location.
• Learn to say NO !.
Segment Projects To Three Primary Elements
Action Steps
Backburner Items
Reference Items
EXPLAINATION Action steps are tasks that can be articulated
succinctly and begin with verbs.
Backburner items are ideas that come up during
brainstorming or while on the run and that are not
actionable but may be later on.
The articles, notes and other stuff that collect
around you.
Action Steps
Backburner Items
Reference Items
Measure Meetings With Action Steps
• Meetings are extremely expensive considering
the cost of time and interruptions they represent.
• Beware of “posting meetings” or meeting
“just because it’s Monday.”
• A meeting that ends without any action steps should have been a voice mail or email.
Reduce Your Insecurity Work
Insecurity work is stuff we do that
• has no definable outcome,
• does not move the ball forward in any way
and
• takes up so much time that we can do it multiple times a day without realizing it.
Solution to minimize insecurity work
• Becoming self-aware. Identify the insecurity work in your daily life.
• The second step is to establish guidelines and rituals for yourself that create discipline.
• The third step, if applicable, is to delegate your insecurity tasks to a less insecure colleague, who can review the data periodically and report any concerns.
The Creative Process Is About Surviving The “Project Plateau.”
Most ideas are abandoned at what we can call the “project plateau”: the point when creative excitement wanes and the pain of deadlines and project management becomes burdensome.
Walt Disney –Three room method• Room 1: Rampant idea generation without
any restraints.
• Room 2: Aggregate and organize ideas generated in room.
• Room 3: Critical review.
“challenge meetings.”
• “What doesn’t make sense with our current plan?”
Build teams of “T” people
FAILURE • What external conditions may explain
the failure?
• What internal factors may have
compromised your judgment
• Are there any gems in the unintended
outcome?”
AN IDEA…….. TO A REALITY……SUCCESS
• Show your ideas some respect, and
spend some energy improving
how you execute.
• If not for you, do it for everyone else
who will benefit from your ideas once
they actually see the light of it and
only then you can taste SUCCEES