#4/111: Making Ideas Happen

What is it about?

A lot of people have ideas. But only a few execute them. Why? Scott Belsky shows that many creative minds struggle in organise themselves. He gives advice on managing oneself and use your community to help realizing your ideas.

Key points?

If you want to execute your ideas you have to be organized. To improve or kill ideas liberally share them with your community. To finally implement your idea break it into small tasks.

Conclusion

I totally love this book. Besides tips for implementing ideas Scott Belsky talks a lot about other creative companies (e.g. IDEO) and shows how they successfully implement and test ideas.

#3/111: Crush It!

What is it about?

Gary Vaynerchuck, wine lover, writes about his passion for social media marketing. He tells us about how he learned to do business in his dad’s liquid store or with selling baseball cards. Furthermore he gives a brief introduction to different forms of social media marketing and building his own personal brand.

Key points?

Write about your passion. Be extremely good at it and take it to the web.

Conclusion

It is somehow too light for an real marketing book, but too focused on marketing for an autobiography.

Motivation

So what is my motivation in reading 111 books in one year? Good question.

Basically I love learning about new things. Therefore I rather read non-fiction books. You will find all books I read with a little description/summary.

If you have any question, please ask me! Have fun reading ;)