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Investors are looking for people who can implement ideas, not only come up with them. Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard – and where the money is.
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The best protection of an idea is great implementation of the idea.
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Balancing between appropriate advance learning and ideation and the risk of falling into ‘analysis paralysis’ comes from experience and skill.
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Analysts must always reside in the idea that they are asserting and testing hypotheses about the problem they are trying to understand.
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There is an idea out there, a kind of macho work ethic, that work is battle, that work is all-out war.
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We rarely get our best ideas when we’re actively trying to get them, using our logic and our will. More common, they come to us when we’re not consciously seeking them.
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The best ideas occur to us, paradoxically, when we let go of conscious control…
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Ideas, of course, are a leader’s strong suit – the way the leader draws forth vision from chaos.
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…leaders who want their organizations to succeed will once again have to reward, even cosset, those employees who have the best ideas.
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The leader has a clear idea of what he or she wants to do – professional and personally – and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
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