Quote

Small teams move faster than big teams.

Scott D. Anthony

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
Team
Small
Bigs
Moving
Teams
Faster
Move

More quotes by Scott D. Anthony

Image
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
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!
Scott D. Anthony
Image
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
So many people tell me that they aren't creative or they aren't innovative, and it's just not true.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good job of predicting what they will do in the future.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
You have to chip away at it and shape it to let the winning idea emerge.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!
Scott D. Anthony
Image
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
Now, I worry a bit about the TEDification of the world where style trumps substance, so hopefully you have a good blend of both!
Scott D. Anthony
Image
I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.
Scott D. Anthony