Brad Costanzo argues ideas aren't worthless without execution. He uses the metaphor of ideas as children that need nurturing and structure to mature into businesses. As a strategic ideation consultant, he helps clients rethink business models by making things bigger, easier, and more fun.
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I really do believe that the sweetest sound, to an entrepreneur's ears, at least to mine, is, I have an idea immediately. Tell me, tell me more. But if you're like a lot of entrepreneurs and a lot of people, you have too many ideas. And that's actually. It can be debilitating, right? And it's like, how do I know what to do now? You may have heard. Then raise your hand if you agree that ideas are worthless without execution. I'm not raising my hand. I don't believe it any more than I believe that children are worthless until they become grown, productive members of society. Children are full of potential. You can mold them. They bring joy just because of who they are. And life would be very less rich without them in the world. Just like ideas. Ideas are like children. They are alive. They spread. There's good ones, there's bad ones. There's like children, right? But just like children, they need to be nurtured with structure and discipline in order to become fully realized businesses or ventures that you can take care of. And with a lot of the work I've been doing with clients as a strategic ideation consultant, and that is really what they bring me in to do, is to ideate on business models, marketing growth ideas and taking. Like what Nick said, I think about things a little bit differently and think about how do we make this bigger, easier, more fun, more effective and do something that isn't just a linear growth. And the way you do that is a very specific process, and it usually revolves around asking the right and different questions.
