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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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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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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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Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
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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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A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.
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I've come to the conclusion that the core characteristic that separates companies that get innovation from those that don't is a simple word: curiosity.
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It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
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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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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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Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.
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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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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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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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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.
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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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I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth.
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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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I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.
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