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

Scott D. Anthony

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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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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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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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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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Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.
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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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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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Mucken Singh works VERY hard on his brawler's physique!
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There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.
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I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth.
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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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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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You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
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Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.
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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.
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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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A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.
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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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People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.
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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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