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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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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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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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Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.
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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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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.
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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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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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You can increase the odds of spotting the weak points in your approach if you really think about the end-to-end business model you plan to follow - how you plan to create, capture, and deliver value.
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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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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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Small teams move faster than big teams.
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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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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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Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
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In my mind, so-called cultures of innovation really boil down to one word: curiosity.
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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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Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
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It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
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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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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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