CHICAGO Why are some people and some teams so consistent in making creative things happen again and again, and others are not?
That is a question Scott Belsky has spent a lot of time looking into. Belsky, author of “Making Ideas Happen” and founder and CEO of Behance (which seeks to help make ideas happen in companies), said he has discovered that “ideas don’t happen because they’re great or by accident. There are a series of other forces at play.”
Those “forces” were examined by Belsky during comments at the CO-OP THINK ’13 Conference here. He offered some insights to credit unions on what they can do to bring new ideas to fruition and to stop doing what most often happens in organizations squelching good ideas.
The three keys to bringing great ideas to the forefront, he said, are Organization & Execution (“This is how you manage your time, meetings, schedule, take notes, know what’s actionable, etc.”); Communal Forces, which is the bringing together of Dreamers, Do-ers, and Incrementalists; and Leadership (“Leaders talk last so as not to silence the visionary. Leaders can talk first and say here’s what I think, what do you think?’ It stymies any original thinking. Better option is to say, here’s the problem, what do you think we should do?”)
