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Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!

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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money.
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You can increase the odds of spotting the weak points in your approach if you really think about the end-to-end business model you plan to follow - how you plan to create, capture, and deliver value.
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If you work on a new product launch, spent time in a new geography, or work to develop a completely new skill, you have no choice but to figure out new ways to solve problems.
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One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.
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So many people tell me that they aren't creative or they aren't innovative, and it's just not true.
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If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just a question of aligning your execution engine in the right way. If it is about creating something new and different, you can't derive the right answer analytically.
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You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
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I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring into finding increasingly clever ways for us to broadcast daily banality (and then serve ads based on what is learned) instead focused on some of the UN Millennium goals? The world would be a better place.
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Any leader has two jobs to do. To do what they are currently doing better and more efficiently (call this strengthening the core), and to do what they are not currently doing but will need to do in the future (call this creating the new).
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Companies get into grooves and they keep sharpening what they are doing, when in fact what they really need to do sometimes is to stop and do something completely differently.
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The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.
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Now, I worry a bit about the TEDification of the world where style trumps substance, so hopefully you have a good blend of both!
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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.
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Of course, it is worth it to take the time to think carefully through your assumptions, and ensure you at least have hypotheses around how you will create value. But use the analysis as a way to focus attention on the most critical assumptions, rather than spend a ton of time massaging the numbers.
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I've come to the conclusion that the core characteristic that separates companies that get innovation from those that don't is a simple word: curiosity.
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Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
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Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.
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A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.
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Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.
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I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.
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