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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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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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Make sure that you take the time to think about how other companies might respond to your idea, both those companies already in the market you plan to target as well as others that might imagine targeting that market.
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Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
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Now, I worry a bit about the TEDification of the world where style trumps substance, so hopefully you have a good blend of both!
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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.
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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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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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Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.
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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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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.
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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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Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
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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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You have to chip away at it and shape it to let the winning idea emerge.
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Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
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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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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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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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You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
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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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