Step 7: Stay Passionate About Your Innovation

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A FINAL KEY STEP IN ensuring successful execution of a new idea is to maintain your own enthusiasm—as well as others’—for the project. Understanding the challenge of keeping up momentum and reviewing strategies for sustaining enthusiasm can help you with this crucial step.

Understanding the momentum challenge

Innovations take time to carry out, and maintaining momentum for your project will likely prove difficult. It is much easier to get people excited over a vision at the beginning of a project than it is to maintain enthusiasm during the day-to-day progress toward your goal. You must sustain people’s ...

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