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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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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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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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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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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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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.
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A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.
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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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You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
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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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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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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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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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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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