8 Ways to Map Out Your Business’s Strategic Goals

March 12, 2013 By The Young Entrepreneur Council 1 Comment

The YEC asks eight young entrepreneurs, “Do you have a favorite tool (analog or otherwise) to assist you and your team in mapping out the year’s strategic plans and goals? How do you use it?”

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: business advice, entrepreneurship, ideas, startup, startups, The Young Entreprenuer Councile, YEC, young entrepreneurs

A cure for the “If this is such a great idea, why aren’t I doing it?” blues

August 22, 2012 By Molly Gordon 1 Comment

Have you ever had a great idea—or two—that you were eager to act on, but you couldn’t seem to get moving? There are two big — and curable — reasons this happens, and neither of them has anything to do with the quality of the idea itself…

Filed Under: The Accidental Entrepreneur Tagged With: confidence, creative productivity, creativity, featured, follow-through, follow-up, following dreams, ideas, Molly Gordon, vision

Viral Growth Trumps Lots of Faux Followers

May 30, 2012 By Seth Godin 1 Comment

A slightly better idea defeats a much bigger but disconnected user base every time.

Filed Under: Seth Godin Tagged With: Facebook, followers, ideas, ideas leading to viral growth, Seth Godin, Twitter, Upmarket Essentials, viral growth

The Next Million Dollar Idea

May 30, 2012 By Derrick Jones Leave a Comment

Crazy ideas, like flying across the ocean for example, changed our quality of life forever. Great ideas come from the minds of ordinary people not much different than you. The only difference is in taking action or dismissing yourself as crazy.

Filed Under: Connection Tagged With: auto-negation, believing in ideas, crazy ideas, following through on ideas, ideas

Does Brainstorming Work?

May 10, 2012 By Eric Barrett 1 Comment

People are lazy in groups. Eric Barrett lets you in on a better way to refine and analyze ideas.

Filed Under: Connection Tagged With: brainstorming, creative economy, creativity, evaluating ideas, idea generation, ideas, refining ideas

Belief Systems: Why do we disconnect the analytical from the artistic?

April 23, 2012 By Joel D Canfield 18 Comments

Current conversation: Science has shown that creativity and intuition can all be learned. Why do so many people believe that analysis is learnable, but artistry is not? Join the conversation and tell us what you think.

Filed Under: Finding Why Tagged With: creativity, featureheader, finding why, ideas, learning, left brain, passion, right brain