Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

A study done in one large Fortune 500 company asked employees to complete a survey about who they go to for help. Whether it was a computer question, a finance inquiry, or something about the history of the business, employees were asked to provide the names of their “go-to” people. Once the data points were collected, researchers mapped it out to

The Action Method begins with a simple premise: everything is a project.

than ask you to emulate a static process that works for others, I will instead present you with a set of core elements to strengthen your existing process.

Rather than using a location-centric approach to work flow and scheduling, we have found that a project-centric approach to productivity is a best practice among leading innovators. The Action Method was developed taking

Steffen encourages leaders to send an e-mail to each person on their team—as well as to key clients—requesting a few feedback points for each participant under the headings START, STOP, and CONTINUE.

the best marketing builds respect.

Don’t dwell.

Avoid the tendency to escape the lulls of the project plateau by developing new ideas.

our odds of success increase when we readily share ideas and seek out discoveries that have already been made by others in our industry.