About the Author

Scott Belsky is the founder and CEO of Behance, the software and design company dedicated to enhancing productivity in the creative community. He oversees a social networking site used by more than 30,000 creative professionals from around the world. He has consulted for media and Fortune 500 companies, including GE and Hewlett-Packard. In 2010 he was included in Fast Company's '100 Most Creative People in Business' list. Prior to founding Behance he helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Initiative at Goldman Sachs; he received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Reviews

If you care about your art, your job or your market, you really have no choice but to read this book
*Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow and Linchpin*

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard. This book helps you with the hard part
*Guy Kawasaki, former Apple guru and author of The Art of the Start*

This book is like a Swiss Army knife for ideas
*Ji Lee, Creative Director at Google Creative Lab*

This is a book about execution, and when it comes to going from an idea to a real business, execution is everything
*John Battelle, co-founder of WIRED and BoingBoing*

If your creative team or organization struggles to implement their best ideas, or if you find that your own creative projects languish unfinished, you need Making Ideas Happen
*Teresa Amabile, Director of Research, Harvard Business School*

There are techniques in this book that can turn disorganised creative prima donnas into organised creative prima donnas
*Chuck Porter, co-chairman, Crispin Porter + Bogusky*

Belsky offers an illustrated map to get to the destination of your great ideas
*Scott Thomas, Design Director, Obama Presidential Campaign*