Archive for February, 2007

Implementing an idea…It’s easy to come up with ideas and improvements…the tough part is being the person that can take an idea to completion.

Having trouble getting your idea implemented? See Seth’s post below:

If you had an hour with your team or your boss or a prospect, how many things would you tell them?

Do you have a laundry list of ten or twenty or fifty ideas you want to share? Six things you want them to do? A dozen changes that are important?

One reason that blog posts have become such a powerful way to spread ideas is that a typical blog post is about just one thing. One.

Why not give that a try? Use your time, all your time, to sell just one thing. Go deep. Sell. Then stop.

Along a similar vein, here’s a quote I like to reference from time to time:

“One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.”

Forbes

The most valuable people in an organization are the ones that can IMPLEMENT and get things done.

If you are like me you read a lot of business articles, print publications, websites/blogs, industry magazines, etc. You hear/read/see ideas from multiple sources everyday…

All of this reading and education is great but you can’t always put it to use at the time you find it, so you put it somewhere for future reference..that’s where the fun (or frustration) begins.

In the past, when I wanted to go back and find the interesting ad/article/nugget of information - I can’t find it. It’s either in my e-mail, in a stack of stuff, bookmarked in Internet Explorer…who knows.

In order to fix this problem I created an Idea Box. I went back in time and went with a LOW level of technology! Here’s what you do:

1. Grab a box.

2. On the outside of that box write, Idea Box.

3. Write a couple rules on the box…mine are:

1. Don’t put anything in this box without adding a sticky note to it that states what you found interesting/useful.

2. Review Idea Box every 4 months.

It’s as simple as that. Now - all of your ideas are printed out and kept in one place for you to reference as needed.

Everyone loves to save ideas and great thoughts. The key is to organize that information so that you can use it when the opprotunity arrises.

Create your Idea Box today.