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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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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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Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.
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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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Everyone knows innovation involves developing unique understanding of a market, thinking expansively to develop a solution, and then finding a way to test rigorously and adapt quickly.
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The need to be thoughtful about experiment design is particularly acute within large companies, since some of the behaviors, such as having small teams and tapping into low-cost resources to maximize flexibility, won't come naturally to many people inside huge companies.
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I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.
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People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing.
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Teams working on disruptive ideas need to be small enough that they can be fed by no more than two pizzas.
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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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Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!
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Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.
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You have to chip away at it and shape it to let the winning idea emerge.
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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.
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Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
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Make sure that you take the time to think about how other companies might respond to your idea, both those companies already in the market you plan to target as well as others that might imagine targeting that market.
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Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.
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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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Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
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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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You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
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