Making ideas happen

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