How to Move from Idea to Implementation: A Process to Unite Your Creativity, Inspiration, and Practicality

This interactive program has been designed to lead you (the user) through the process that can unite creativity, inspiration, and practicality. It will reveal “how to steps” which can make your dream (goal) feasible. Your vision will ultimately become a reality. You will also have at the conclusion of the program a work document that shall serve as a guide to reach your objective. This “how to” program will serve as a promulgation tool, which you can calibrate to accommodate your need, personality, and pace. Your skill set should drive the complexity or simplicity of the finished product. To execute the level of attainment, you, the user, shall elevate the degree of challenge. The aggressiveness and boldness that you demonstrate in the completion of the exercises contained herein will determine the height of the bar of expectation. Upon completion of this program, you will have answered the question suggested by the title: “How do I move from idea to implementation?” You will actually create a document to support your unique approach to moving from idea to implementation. The program will propel you on a personal quest. You shall become the author of an informational utensil, certifying your capability to perform with self-confidence at any level. Most importantly, you will customize a tool that should adapt to personal specifications. This program will empower you to attain confidence and exhilarate faith in your abilities. As the user, you will tactfully acquire the discipline to govern acts of excessive exuberance as related to energetic interactions. You will rise to the level of a skilled communicator and a critical analyst. Additionally, you will have to integrate the deciphering of data into rendering apropos decisions without instituting emotional bias. You will be empowered to capably extend constructive criticism and to graciously accept any reciprocal exchange. This program shall prohibit procrastination. Also, it will deter the practice of random activity pursuits. An illuminated agenda will command that none of your time goes unmanaged. Business (as usual) minus a specific agenda will only exhaust time.

Mark Carven Olds has evolved as a sage voice of leadership in the African American community and beyond. His emergence has been spurred by a unique and widespread gambit of life experiences. He has built a legacy of respect based his faith and resilience. He has earned a Master of Nonprofit Organizations degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He did post graduate studies at Case’s history department. He did doctoral studies in Interdisciplinary Studies with a Specialization in Public Policy/Health at the Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is always striving for new plateaus to enhance the quality of life for all humanity. He has founded a number of other nonprofit organizations that have had local and national impact. His latest endeavor, the Midwest Minority Think Tank for Public Policy, Leadership, and Service, LLC., (The Think Tank) holds the promise of transformation for a people and generations to come. He has taken the stand to set forth an institution with “A Solutions Strategy” impetus. The solutions will come with a defined strategy to move from idea to implementation. The goal is to have an institution that allows any member to set forth a solution that can help elevate the whole of society. The Midwest Minority Think Tank will not make official statements on any issue, without a solution attached. Public policy makers, leadership figures, and those who purport to serve will no longer find refuge behind mounds of political rhetoric or mountains of in-effective verbosity. By setting forth doable and workable solutions in a format easily comprehensible by the general population, The Think Tank shall make it impossible to say that there was no solution. Mark Carven Olds has fearlessly launched radical thoughts which have caused some degree of a status quo implosion. He has stated, “My energy should resolve a conundrum rather than promote a dialogue continuum. An issue’s origin or any potential negative fallout should not commandeer a creative people’s impetus. I cannot sit idle (imprisoned or liberated) and watch the Civil Rights Movement’s gains slowly undergo erosion. To assume a passive observer’s role, I would have betrayed my elders and committed treason against the progeny of my people.” He has repeatedly refused an onlooker’s demeanor. His continues to who sets forth radical concepts and revolutionary initiatives which will uplift the imperfect people and the impoverished people.