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Introduction: Making Ideas Happen | p. 1 |
Making This Book Happen | p. 4 |
Why Most Ideas Never Happen | p. 8 |
The Forces That Make Ideas Happen | p. 14 |
A Final Note As We Begin | p. 18 |
Organization and Execution | p. 21 |
The Competitive Advantage of Organization | p. 25 |
Your Approach to Organization and the Destiny of Your Ideas | p. 26 |
The Action Method: Work and Life with a Bias Toward Action | p. 30 |
Reconsider How You Manage Projects | p. 32 |
Breaking Projects into Primary Elements | p. 34 |
The Importance of Action Steps | p. 37 |
Maintaining a Backburner | p. 43 |
References are Worth Storing, Not Revering | p. 45 |
Practicing the Action Method | p. 49 |
Capture and Make Time for Processing | p. 51 |
Prioritization: Managing Your Energy Across Life's Projects | p. 58 |
Keep an Eye on Your Energy Line | p. 58 |
Reconciling Urgent vs. Important | p. 61 |
Darwinian Prioritization | p. 67 |
Execution: Always Moving the Ball Forward | p. 70 |
Act Without Conviction | p. 72 |
Kill Ideas Liberally | p. 75 |
Measure Meetings with Action | p. 78 |
The Biology and Psychology of Completion | p. 81 |
The Tao of the Follow-up | p. 84 |
Seek Constraints | p. 86 |
Have a Tempered Tolerance for Change | p. 89 |
Progress Begets Progress | p. 91 |
Visual Organization and Advertising Action to Yourself | p. 93 |
Mental Loyalty: Maintaining Attention and Resolve | p. 98 |
Rituals for Perspiration | p. 99 |
Reconsider Your Work Space | p. 102 |
Reduce Your Amount of "Insecurity Work" | p. 104 |
The Forces of Community | p. 107 |
Harnessing the Forces Around You | p. 111 |
The Dreamers, the Doers, and the Incrementalists | p. 112 |
Seldom is Anything Accomplished Alone | p. 116 |
Share Ideas Liberally | p. 120 |
Capitalize on Feedback | p. 124 |
Transparency Boosts Communal Forces | p. 128 |
Communal Forces are Best Channeled in Circles | p. 131 |
Seek Competition | p. 135 |
Commit Yourself in Order to Commit Others | p. 138 |
Create Systems for Accountability | p. 139 |
The Pressure of the Spotlight | p. 140 |
The Power of the Network | p. 142 |
The Benefits of a Shared Work Space | p. 143 |
Seeking Stimulation from Serendipity | p. 145 |
Pushing Ideas Out to Your Community | p. 147 |
Overcome the Stigma of Self-Marketing | p. 148 |
Effective Self-Marketing Builds Respect | p. 151 |
Find Your Own Frequency, Then Tune in to Engage Others | p. 155 |
Ground Your Ideas Outside Your Community | p. 158 |
Recognize When You are No Longer a Solo Show | p. 159 |
Leadership Capability | p. 163 |
The Rewards Overhaul | p. 167 |
Short-Circuiting the Rewards System | p. 168 |
The Motivational Reward of Play | p. 172 |
The Reward of Recognition | p. 175 |
The Chemistry of the Creative Team | p. 177 |
Engage Initiators in Your Creative Pursuits | p. 178 |
Cultivate Complementary Skill Sets | p. 179 |
Provide Flexibility for Productivity | p. 180 |
Foster an Immune System that Kills Ideas | p. 183 |
Fight Your Way to Breakthroughs | p. 184 |
Don't Become Burdened by Consensus | p. 186 |
Managing the Creative Team | p. 190 |
Share Ownership of Your Ideas | p. 191 |
Leaders Should Talk Last | p. 193 |
Judge and Be Judged Amidst Conflict | p. 194 |
Develop Others Through the Power of Appreciation | p. 195 |
Seek the Hot Spots | p. 199 |
Self-Leadership | p. 202 |
Find a Path to Self-Awareness | p. 203 |
Develop a Tolerance for Ambiguity | p. 204 |
Capture the Benefits of Failure | p. 206 |
Avoid the Trap of Visionary's Narcissism | p. 207 |
Combating Conventional Wisdom with Contrarianism | p. 209 |
Consider Yourself an Entrepreneur | p. 211 |
Be Willing to Be a Deviant | p. 213 |
Keep an Eye on the Backward Clock | p. 214 |
The Love Conundrum | p. 216 |
Afterword | p. 219 |
An Opportunity and a Responsibility | p. 223 |
Acknowledgments | p. 225 |
Tips for Practicing the Action Method | p. 228 |
The Purple Santa Experiment | p. 230 |
Overview of the Behance Network | p. 233 |
Index | p. 234 |
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