It is not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen.
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— Rasu Shrestha MD MBA (@RasuShrestha) April 12, 2015
As I’ve thought through my own entrepreneurial journey, I think this is the biggest key differentiator between me and many others. Ideas are so easy. Everyone has them and great entrepreneurs have thousands of them. The really really hard thing is to do something about them.
I hate to think about the millions of ideas that have come to people in healthcare and nothing’s been done about them. They lie dormant in someone’s mind since someone doesn’t feel empowered to do something about it. They never see the light of day because someone is afraid to share the idea with someone else who could help them make it a reality.
While we love to tell stories of innovation that get wrapped up really nice with a pretty bow on top. The reality is that every innovation I’ve seen in healthcare is always much messier than a story portrays. This is why making an idea happen is so hard. Having the idea is easy. Actually acting on an idea is messy and often extremely difficult.
Thank you Dr. Shrestha for the challenge coming out of HIMSS where a lot of ideas are thrown around. Now’s the time to help make those ideas happen.
