Top Highlights

• The ideas that move industries forward are not the result of tremendous creative insight but rather of masterful stewardship.
• (1) organization and relentless execution, (2) engaging peers and leveraging communal forces, and (3) strategies for leading creative pursuits. While many of us spend too much energy searching for the next great idea, my research shows that we would be better served by developing the capacity to make ideas happen—a capacity that endures over time.
• “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”
• Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References.
• The Action Method helps those of us with creative tendencies live and work with a bias toward action.