Scott Belsky
Author of Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
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Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (The 99U Book Series) (2013) — Foreword, some editions — 748 copies
Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career (The 99U Book Series) (2013) — Foreword — 161 copies
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Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles… by Scott Belsky
Changed how I organise my work day. Next challenge is to apply it to everything else.
I think I'll need to read this one twice to really absorbe all he said, but I though he had some good ideas. Still, it seems like all these guys quote each other. Perhaps they need to read other things?
I read this one because I was interested in learning more about Action Method time/project management. This was covered in very basic o review in the first few chapters. The book focuses primarily on those working in "creative" fields (design, architecture, art, etc), so the primary audience is different from where I am. My one big take away is that one pitfall is to continuously generate new ideas without committing to following through on completing a few. Some ideas need to be parked until we finish our current commitments.… (more)
First chapter is great, really tactical ideas of how to handle ideas. From there, it's some more good advice on fostering ideas and including community. But I had to stop when the last chapter was all about how to be a leader. I have no intentions of being a CEO of a tech startup, which is what it seemed to be targeted at. Otherwise, a good read, I'd say you could almost just scan the TOC and go to what you're looking for.
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