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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
Idea
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Chip
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Chips
Shape
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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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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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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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In my mind, so-called cultures of innovation really boil down to one word: curiosity.
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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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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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I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth.
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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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Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
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Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.
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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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It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
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Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
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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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Small teams move faster than big teams.
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Innovation is doubly hard inside big 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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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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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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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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