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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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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.
Scott D. Anthony
There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.
Scott D. Anthony
Good innovators are careful observers, network extensively, run experiments, ask lots of questions, and find ways to bring diverse ideas together. Overarching all of this is an intrinsic interest in working through puzzles.
Scott D. Anthony
Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.
Scott D. Anthony
There is what Steve Blank calls the stage where you are searching for a scalable business model. Then, there is the stage when you have found that model and need to scale it. In the former stage you have to have a beginner's mind, be in learning mode, and expect to learn things you didn't anticipate.
Scott D. Anthony
Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
Scott D. Anthony
Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.
Scott D. Anthony
If you are a large company and you want to do something unique, you almost by definition have to tap onto the core business in some way. Otherwise you are going into a naked fight against startups, and that's just a tough place to be.
Scott D. Anthony
Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.
Scott D. Anthony
It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
Scott D. Anthony
The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good job of predicting what they will do in the future.
Scott D. Anthony
It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.
Scott D. Anthony
I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.
Scott D. Anthony
It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.
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We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many people can't access clean water, quality healthcare, and reasonable education. We have to figure out what to do about climate change, income inequality, and more. Innovators need to rise to the challenge!
Scott D. Anthony
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.
Scott D. Anthony
I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.
Scott D. Anthony
Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
Scott D. Anthony
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Small teams move faster than big teams.
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