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You have to chip away at it and shape it to let the winning idea emerge.

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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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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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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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It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
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Mucken Singh works VERY hard on his brawler's physique!
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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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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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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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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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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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Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an opportunity for innovation.
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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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You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
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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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Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
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If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just a question of aligning your execution engine in the right way. If it is about creating something new and different, you can't derive the right answer analytically.
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A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.
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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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In my mind, so-called cultures of innovation really boil down to one word: curiosity.
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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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