How the world's leading innovators push their ideas to fruition, time and time again.

Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution is rare.

According to Scott Belsky, the capacity to make ideas happen can be strengthened by anyone willing to build their organizational habits and harness the forces of community. That's why he founded Behance, a company that helps creative people and teams across industries develop these skills.

Belsky has spent six years studying the habits of especially productive creative people and teams-the ones who make their ideas happen time and time again. After interviewing hundreds of successful creatives, he has compiled their most powerful-and often counterintuitive-practices, such as:

•Generate ideas in moderation and act without conviction

•Reduce all projects to just three primary components

•Encourage fighting within your team

•Seek competition and share ideas liberally

In an increasingly flexible and entrepreneurial environment, creative minds have the opportunity (and responsibility) to solve and change industries-but they can only do that if they overcome the obstacles. While many of us obsess about discovering great new ideas, Belsky shows why it's better to develop the capacity to make ideas happen-a capacity that endures over time.

斯科特•贝尔斯基

Behance网站的创始人兼CEO

创意管理大师

为了帮助不同行业的个人或团体掌握实现创想，贝尔斯基与其团队创立了Behance网站。Behance网站拥有世界领先的、为创新者提供专业服务的网络平台，并于每年定期召开99%会议（the 99% Conference）——全球最重要的创想执行讨论会之一。他曾协助开发高盛（Goldman Sachs）松树街领导力发展项目（Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative）。

贝尔斯基用了6年时间研究创新性与实践性尤为出色的各种群体——即那些能够不断实现创想、获得成功的个人或团队。在采访了数百位成功的创新者后，贝尔斯基总结出了对他们影响最大、而且通常是反直觉的共同行为：创意成真=创意+组织和执行能力+社群的力量+领导能力。