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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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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.
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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.
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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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You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
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Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!
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Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.
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It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
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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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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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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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In my mind, so-called cultures of innovation really boil down to one word: curiosity.
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