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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.

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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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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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It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
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Of course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as customer satisfaction or employee retention might be meaningful if you are focusing more internally.
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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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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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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.
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In my mind, so-called cultures of innovation really boil down to one word: curiosity.
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Small teams move faster than big teams.
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Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
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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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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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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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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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All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at first glance make sense to the market leader.
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Mucken Singh works VERY hard on his brawler's physique!
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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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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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Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.
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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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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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