Today Scott Belsky’s new book hits the shelves: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles between Vision and Reality. It gets to the heart of how to do more Great Work, and I’m a raving fan. Pick up a copy, and re-listen to our interview that I first posted in January 2010.

“It’s not about ideas, it’s about making ideas happen.”
I love that statement. I know from my time teaching and consulting on innovation and creativity that actually having ideas, when you know how, is pretty easy. But actually executing ideas – ahh, that’s a different matter. Scott Belsky is the CEO and founder of Behance and what he stands for is making ideas happen. Behance operates the leading online platform for creative professionals – which means, helping creatives find a place to get together and to think about, how do we make our ideas happen? Scott and Behance also run the 99% Blog and the 99% Conference.

In this interview we talk about:

• Why looking to the short-term can be a powerful execution strategy
• How to overcome the tragedy that most ideas are born and lost in isolation
• And why ‘acting without conviction” is a handy strategy for keeping things going

You can follow Scott on Twitter@behance, on the Behance website and on the 99% Blog.

Listen to my interview with Scott Belsky

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