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Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
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
"Starting a new venture is like jumping off a cliff and sewing a parachute on the way down. This book is the parachute." Joe Gebbia, cofounder and chief product officer, Airbnb How do you make your start-up a genuine success in the long term? 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 covering: · Coping with uncertainty and conflict · Playing the long game · Optimising your team · Problem solving through the ups and downs · Adapting your strategy · When to quit 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.
Summary of Scott Belsky's The Messy Middle
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 When you have no customers, no press, and nobody knows or cares about what you’re making, the only way to get any sort of motivation is through manufactured milestones. #2 The great void of feedback and reward that earlystage startups must endure is especially apparent at startup conferences like Web Summit. anonymity means you can make mistakes and drastic changes to your product without disappointing anyone, but only because nobody cares. #3 To hack your reward system, lower the bar for what constitutes a win. Milestones that are directly correlated with progress are more effective motivators than anything else. #4 It’s important to celebrate and manufacture wins early on, but make sure they’re not fake wins. You’ll find them at the expense of more important truths. To objectively observe the performance of your new creation or product, put yourself in others’ shoes.
Summary of Scott Belsky's The Messy Middle
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 When you have no customers, no press, and nobody knows or cares about what you’re making, the only way to get any sort of motivation is through manufactured milestones. #2 The great void of feedback and reward that early-stage start-ups must endure is especially apparent at start-up conferences like Web Summit. anonymity means you can make mistakes and drastic changes to your product without disappointing anyone, but only because nobody cares. #3 To hack your reward system, lower the bar for what constitutes a win. Milestones that are directly correlated with progress are more effective motivators than anything else. #4 It’s important to celebrate and manufacture wins early on, but make sure they’re not fake wins. You’ll find them at the expense of more important truths. To objectively observe the performance of your new creation or product, put yourself in others’ shoes.
The Knack
Too many start-ups don't make the grade - what makes a successful business take off? Starting a new business is exciting, but there are many traps for the unwary. Some would-be entrepreneurs stick so firmly to their step-by-step guides that they don't see what's really going on. Others become so obsessed with potential problems they lose sight of the bigger picture. What they really need, according to serial entrepreneur Norm Brodsky, is a mindset that will help them to stay focussed on the real goals and grab opportunities whenever they arise. He calls it 'the knack'. It's helped him to build eight phenomenally successful companies, and in this book he uses stories of real companies facing real challenges to show you how to develop it too.
Kissinger
The definitive biography of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and how his ideas still resonate in the world today from the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs. By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public, ranging from liberal intellectuals to conservative activists. Kissinger explores the relationship between this complex man’s personality and the foreign policy he pursued. Drawing on extensive interviews with Kissinger...
A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs
A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs shows how the insights of leading venture capitalists can teach readers to create a unique approach to building a successful business. Through profiles and interviews of figures such as Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital, Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz of Andreesen Horowitz, and Jenny Lee of GGV Capital, Tren Griffin draws out the fundamental lessons from their ideas and experiences. Entrepreneurs should learn from past successes but also be prepared to break new ground. While there are best practices, there is no single recipe they should follow. By better understanding the views and experiences of a wide range of successful venture capitalists and entrepren...
The Origins of You
A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year After tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world’s preeminent psychologists reveal what they have learned about how humans develop. Does temperament in childhood predict adult personality? What role do parents play in shaping how a child matures? Is day care bad—or good—for children? Does adolescent delinquency forecast a life of crime? Do genes influence success in life? Is health in adulthood shaped by childhood experiences? In search of answers to these and similar questions, four leading psychologists have spent their careers studying thousands of people, observing them as they’ve grown up and grown ol...
Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience
Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are shaped by story. If we tell stories that emphasize only desolation, then we become weaker. If we tell stories in ways that make us stronger, we can soothe our losses and erase sorrows. Learning how to re-envision the stories we tell about ourselves can make an enormous difference in the ways we live our lives. Drawing on wisdom form the field of narrative therapy, this book will help people rewrite and retell the stories of their lives, reclaiming and celebrating experiences in the face of specific challenges such as trauma, abuse, personal failure, grief, and aging. Readers are introduced to key ideas of narrative practice like externalizing problems--"the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem"--and the concept of "re-membering" one's life. Easy-to-understand examples and exercises help readers make these techniques their own, leading them on a path to reclaim their past and re-envision their future. -- Publisher's description.
Super-Modified
Behance is the Facebook of the creative community worldwide. Exclusively compiled by the Behance team, this book presents the best and most groundbreaking work featured on the platform.
