November 23, 2009

Why do most ideas die even before they are born?

image courtesy www.evernote.com/pub/notna2000/Dilbert/

Ideas never die, often they are killed. Most of the times ideas are killed because of the following reasons:

  • Most ideas die in the mind as they are never documented
  • Lack of passion and confidence in the idea
  • Current comfort of working on regular stuff limits in taking the idea forward
  • Other priorities of normal day-to-day life does not allow one to focus on the idea (day-to-day grind at work defocuses one from the idea)
  • Lack of conviction to prove idea in action
  • Failure to look at the value generated to customer from the idea not just revenue from the customer

1 comment:

  1. Good points. Another one is lack of self belief. The book "The Magic of Thinking Big" beautifully explains that.

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