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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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People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.
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Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
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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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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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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'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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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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Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
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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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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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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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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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I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth.
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Small teams move faster than big teams.
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Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
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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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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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In my mind, so-called cultures of innovation really boil down to one word: curiosity.
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It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
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