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
Teams
Faster
Move
Team
Small
Bigs
Moving

More quotes by Scott D. Anthony

Image
Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
If you work on a new product launch, spent time in a new geography, or work to develop a completely new skill, you have no choice but to figure out new ways to solve problems.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
You have to chip away at it and shape it to let the winning idea emerge.
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
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
Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
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.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money.
Scott D. Anthony
Image
Teams working on disruptive ideas need to be small enough that they can be fed by no more than two pizzas.
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