Making Ideas Happen

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 28, 2010

Thomas Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. Scott Belsky tells us how ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution that turns ideas into reality is rare. In Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming Obstacles between Vision and Reality, he explains how to develop the capacity to make ideas happen.

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