Tag: action
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Get started early. Let your mind get to work.
Fred Wilson shares profound advice from his father about problem solving and subconscious information processing: “He explained that I should start working on a project as soon as it was assigned. An hour or so would do fine, he told me. He told me to come back to the project every day for at least…
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Success and mastery take work
“Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it’s hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat. Think, say, of Twitter, whose business plan, such that it is, has always been something along the lines of “Get big and popular, then just flip the switch and start making money when…
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Working on a project? Listen to the owners.
In “The math of action” we talked about how action matters as much as creativity for impact. One way to apply this is to filter others’ input through the lens of action and ownership. We often celebrate ideas, but ideas are cheap – implementation makes the difference. In brainstorming sessions, it’s good to hear a wide…
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The math of action
How many times have you sat in a meeting where hundreds of great ideas are tossed around, but in the end, not much happens? In his book Making Ideas Happen, Scott Belsky repeats the adage that creativity (or productivity, progress in our projects, and growth in relationships) is 2% inspiration and 98% perspiration. He looks further…
Jon Sampson 