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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.
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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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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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Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
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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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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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You have to chip away at it and shape it to let the winning idea emerge.
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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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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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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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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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Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.
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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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A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.
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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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In my mind, so-called cultures of innovation really boil down to one word: curiosity.
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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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