Brainstorming and ideas: Do’s, Don’ts, and Maybes
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. Mark Twain
Here are two online articles that discuss some of the various ways of brainstorming, “Eight Rules to Brilliant Brainstorming” and “Forget Brainstorming” that might help you with getting your ideas out and into the market place.
I was having a coffee with an entreneurial friend of mine, Karl Dakin, at Espressole Cafe and we were discussing business ideas. He pulled out a package of seeds and told this story. “When I discuss business ideas with people I pull this package out and ask people what they would pay for them. Then I ask what they’d pay for the results of the seeds after they were harvested. That’s the price for ideas versus a well executed idea. You get more money from execution rather than ideas.”
So, ideas are a dime a dozen, or the price of a package of seeds, but it’s worth more when you apply action to your ideas, or do the work to get the seeds through to harvest time.
UPDATE 1: Here’s a link to a rebuttal by Alan Black that counters some of the above articles.
