Speaker, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Behance, and author of the insightful and results oriented book Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality, Scott Belsky shares his mission to empower and organize the creative world. He has studied the habits and traits shared by productive individuals and teams, and has compiled their shared principles and techniques. Scott presents a systematic approach to creative organization and productivity. His advice is practical, and often counter-intuitive, but is all designed to carry the project forward with a bias toward taking positive action.
Scott Belsky is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Thursday, June 10, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Speaker, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Behance, and author of the insightful and results oriented book Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality, Scott Belsky shares his mission to empower and organize the creative world. You will learn:
* Why so many great idea never get past the creation stage
* Why it's important to develop the capacity to make ideas happen
* How to develop an action oriented process to build ideas into products
* How to build a great team and establish strong leadership of the group
Scott Belsky (photo left) believes that the greatest breakthroughs across all industries are a result of creative people and teams that are especially productive. As such, Scott has committed his professional life to help organize creative individuals, teams, and networks.
Scott is the founder and CEO of Behance, a company that develops products and services for creative industries. Behance oversees the Behance Network, the world's leading online platform for creative professionals; The 99%, Behance's think tank and annual conference devoted to execution in the creative world, and Action Method, a popular online/mobile productivity application and line of organizational paper products.
Scott is the author of Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, April, 2010).
Behance's first product, the Behance Network, has become the leading online platform for creative professionals. The Network receives over 4 million visitors every month and has become one of the most efficient platforms for creative professionals to broadcast their work to top agencies, fans, peers, and recruiters.
In 2008, Behance launched Action Method, a revolutionary "action management" system that has replaced traditional project management practices throughout the creative professional world and beyond. Behance also developed the Action Method product line - a series of organizational products that are sold around the world and in Behance's online store.
Through his work at Behance, Scott has become an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower the careers of creative professionals and the growth of small and rapidly-changing businesses. He has consulted for leading media and Fortune 500 companies, including GE and Hewlett-Packard, and has traveled as far as the Kaospilots School in Aarhus, Denmark to talk about his findings. He has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek, and has shared Behance's research in segments on ABC News, MSNBC (1) (2), and with the United States State Department. Scott has also guest lectured at Cornell University, Harvard University, VCU Brand Center, and UC Berkeley among other institutions, and serves as a small business expert on American Express' Open Forum website.
Prior to founding Behance, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with Goldman Sachs' key clients. Scott chairs the Board of Reboot, serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program, is a board member for the Art Director's Club, and is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.
My book review of Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky.
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Let's talk with speaker, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Behance, and author of the insightful and results oriented book Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality, Scott Belsky as he shares his mission to empower and organize the creative world. He has studied the habits and traits shared by productive individuals and teams, and has compiled their shared principles and techniques. Scott presents a systematic approach to creative organization and productivity. His advice is practical, and often counter-intuitive, but is all designed to carry the project forward with a bias toward taking positive action on Blog Business Success Radio.
