Are you building an empire, sparking a powder keg, or starting a movement?

This is the source of the "ideas aren't important" and/or "ideas are a dime-a-dozen" and/or "idea guys are worthless" mindset(s).

The trick is to be able to differentiate between movements (in the phrasing of Weinberg's post) and powder kegs/empires. Without established idea guy cred (think Jobs, Bezos, et al) nobody's going to believe you have that ability-- at least not on the magnitude you believe yourself to have it. They'll tell you "everybody has ideas" or "I have tons of ideas too" or whatever. No... everybody has movement ideas. Just you wait. :)

Wouldn't I just love to be a powder keg.

I'm going for sparking a powder keg, followed by starting a movement and resulting in building an empire :)

Duck Duck Go: fowl movement? (epi0Bauqu knows i am joking of course)