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Notes by Chris G | see Twitter hash #cat11 for more conference quotes
Most ideas never happen.
When new ideas happen, energy & excitement are very high.
Myth: ideas happen because they are great
Pitfalls:
A Love for Idea Generation
The Gravitational Force of Operations
A Lack of Feeling Organized
A Lack of Accountability
A Lack of Feedback Exchange
A Lack of Leadership Capability
How do some people defy the odds and make ideas happen?
Overcome Reactionary Workflow
- an endless stream of...(inboxes, etc)
- create windows of non-stimulation (unplug)
- spend energy on how we organize
- - creativity * organization = impact
- organization is the competitive advantage to make ideas happen
- organize with a bias to action
- - measure the value meetings by action steps
- - be intolerant of inaction
- have cultures of capturing action steps
- reduce your amount of insecurity work
- - stuff we are doing to assure ourselves that everything is okay
- - eliminate it, delegate it, isolate it
- never stop optimizing
- - we get to where we don't want to fix it if it isn't broken
- - do experiments
- - constantly work to improve
Communal Forces
- the dreamers (create new things), the doers (happy with no new things), the incrementalists (dualists; create too many things)
- share ideas liberally
- share ownership of ideas
- seek competition
- - pace with others in your community
- - push to community
- overcome the stigma of self-marketing
Leadership Capabilities
- value the team's immune system
- - the immune system is the doers
- - brainstorming is the organ transplant
- find and empower the "hot spots" (information sources, etc)
- incentivize innovation by tolerating failure
- push people into their intersection
- - [interests + skills + opportunities] :: work in your overlap
- gain confidence from doubt
- - when people tell you you're crazy, your either really crazy or you're on to something
- "nothing extraordinary is ever achieved by ordinary means"