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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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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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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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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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Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
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Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
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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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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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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.
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Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.
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Mucken Singh works VERY hard on his brawler's physique!
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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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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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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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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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It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
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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.
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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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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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Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.
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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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