Home > Work > Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
21 " When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history. "
― , Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
22 " a methodology is only effective when it is practiced consistently. "
23 " Roger Berkowitz, CEO of Legal Sea Foods—a $215-million company with over four thousand employees—explained in an interview with Inc. magazine how his work style depends on the forces of nagging. “People who want me to do something . . . have to remind me repeatedly,” he explained. “It’s management by being nagged.” The reliance on—and even the encouragement of—nagging may at first appear bothersome. It may be annoying to be constantly reminded about something while trying to immerse yourself in a creative project. However, amidst the chaos of meetings and trying to prioritize the elements of multiple projects, nagging from others helps you prioritize by natural selection. When someone is consistently bothering you about something, chances are you have become a bottleneck in the team’s productivity. "
24 " organization is the guiding force of productivity: if you want to make an idea happen, you need to have a process for doing so. "
25 " organization is a major force for making ideas happen. "
26 " The hyperconnectivity made possible by the Internet has acted as a massive accelerator for the “small sparks” that fuel the refinement of ideas. "
27 " A surplus of ideas is as dangerous as a drought. The tendency to jump from idea to idea to idea spreads your energy horizontally rather than vertically. As a result, you’ll struggle to make progress. "
28 " While some of the greatest ideas and solutions come up in meetings, we often fail to connect these ideas to a tangible set of next steps. "
29 " Most ideas get lost in what I call the “project plateau,” a period of intense execution where your natural creative tendencies turn against you. "