SW Classics: You Don't Need More Ideas (You Need More Execution)

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

DG is traveling around Europe this week, sharing the good word on brand building. So for today's episode of Seeking Wisdom, we're throwing it back to one of our favorite episodes...on ideas. You don't need more of them, you need better execution. Learn how to pick out the good from the bad and how to actually execute. In this episode: 00:18 - Ranting about “ideas” 01:02 - Ideas that put you to sleep 01:30 - Why “ideas” hold no value 01:55 - Why NOW is the only real idea 02:30 - How to filter your ideas 03:09 - Synthesizing brings success 03:30 - Powerful ideas need immediate action 04:05 - Always trust your gut 04:35 - “Interesting” isn’t always worthy of action 04:45 - Real ideas always require implementation 05:15 - If you move the ball, you can move your mouth Before you go leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review and share the pod with your friends! Be sure to check out more insights on ideas and execution on the Drift blog at drift.com/blog and find us on Twitter @davegerhardt, @dcancel and @seekingwisdomio.

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0:00.0	So I said I had some rants to talk about, but it's 3.30 in the afternoon, and by now I've
0:10.8	had like 50 rants, so I had a hard time remembering which rant I wanted to talk about. Which one was that?
0:15.4	Yeah. So the rant was that I was having this morning on a call was about this notion that people, whether they're
0:24.0	new on your team or they're existing on the team, they think that the unit of value is to have
0:29.6	ideas. And so they want to bring ideas. Hey, DJ, I got an idea. I got an idea. I got an idea.
0:34.2	And everyone is like, and wants, and they're so worked up about sharing their idea, like, I got to share my idea, I got to tell you my idea.
0:42.9	And for me, it's like, like I've always said, I'm sick of ideas.
0:45.9	Like what I want to, what we want is like execute, execute, execute in the Bill Woff style standard of performance every day.
0:56.9	And along that, you will have ideas and you will implement those ideas. But as soon as you're talking to me about, there's two things
1:01.2	that where I go to sleep. If you want to tell me about your idea, I'm falling asleep. Okay, the next
1:07.2	thing is any kind of update or plan or conversation where you mention the word
1:15.0	months.
1:16.1	If you say months to me in three months, in two months, four months from now, six months,
1:21.9	I'm asleep.
1:22.8	Okay.
1:23.3	I'm done.
1:23.8	Okay.
1:24.3	I've turned off.
1:24.9	All right.
1:25.2	So hold on.
1:25.9	I want to reiterate.
1:27.4	So two things that you don't like.
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