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IDEAS matter! – Steve Ballmer (@clippersteveb) – #Entspresso


good morning believe nation today’s
message is ideas matter over to you
Steve Ballmer I wake up every mood
especially vigo ideas matter I talked
about this a little bit I spoke at the
big commitment commencement at USC three
years ago and yet as I was really going
through what I needed to say to you I
have to reinforce this notion that ideas
matter people think business is about
leadership they think it’s about working
hard they think it’s about a lot of
things which it is but at the end of the
day the ideas that you have will power
the organizations that you join they
will create the value a great team great
energy and great hard work will never
make up for a bad idea now bad ideas can
also fall flat on the floor for a lot of
other reasons windows and the power of
the microprocessor great idea great idea
and ideas matter even if you turn around
and look at your own sort of personal
lives the idea what you choose to do
does matter you don’t have to make a
right choice a perfect choice now as you
graduate but what you really need to do
is constantly ask yourself am I pursuing
the right idea in my life in my career
for my company is this really something
that will create value because at the
end of the day if the idea is wrong you
will fail I agree that ideas matter I
agree that ideas are important and
creative ideas and trusting the ideas
what I would add to it is that you have
to go out and execute on the ideas too
because a lot of people have great ideas
i’m sure you guys be an entrepreneur
audience have tons of great ideas but
you have to go out and start making
progress on those great ideas for
anything great to happen because if the
idea just sits in your head
and you don’t do anything about it what
you’re going to find is somebody else
capitalizes on your idea right somebody
else goes out and makes tons of money
has a huge impact and you sit there said
I thought was my idea that person stole
my idea where really it’s on you because
you didn’t go out and execute so when
you come up with this great idea you’ve
kind of go and start taking action even
if it’s small even if it’s super tiny
some tiny little step every single day
to move forward on it and you may not
have the resources or connections or
knowledge or people around you or
anything yet to make it happen but part
of entrepreneurship is figuring it out
as you go yes you can have a great plan
yes you don’t just dive in and say oh I
wonder what’s going to happen you want
to have a roadmap but you won’t have all
the pieces together either and there’s
going to be a lot of unexpected things
and roadblocks that get put in your way
in entrepreneurship is about being
resourceful in finding a way around it
figuring it out partly as you go and so
if you’re that person that’s where
you’re at right now when you have this
great idea and you think you can have a
huge impact to make a lot of money and
change the world somehow through that
idea stop waiting stop waiting for the
funding to come in for that ideal client
to come in or for whoever the win the
presidential election like none of that
matters what matters is you taking
action today and tomorrow and the next
day to move one step closer to making
that idea happen ideas matter and you
have to execute on so the question today
today is I’m curious are you guys
executing to your full capacity you’ve
got this great idea are you really
deeply truly honestly actually executing
on it or not leave it in the comments
below and I’m going to join in the
discussion I also want to give a quick
shadow to Joslyn my ADA Jocelyn thank
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