#business #innovation # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Execution is more important than ideas [[Steve Jobs]] success is largely due to his extraordinary execution. >Vision without execution is hallucination. But I also came to believe that his ability to blur the line between reality and fantasy, just like his sfumato techniques for blurring the lines of a painting, was a key to his creativity. Skill without imagination is barren. Leonardo knew how to marry observation and imagination, which made him history’s consummate innovator. >~ [[Walter Isaacson]] on [[Leonardo Da Vinci]] >Ideas are cheap—what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea. >~ [[Kaufman, Josh - The Personal MBA]]