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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.
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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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You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
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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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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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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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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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People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.
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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.
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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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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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In my mind, so-called cultures of innovation really boil down to one word: curiosity.
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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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Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
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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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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 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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If you are a large company and you want to do something unique, you almost by definition have to tap onto the core business in some way. Otherwise you are going into a naked fight against startups, and that's just a tough place to be.
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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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