Scott D. Anthony Quotes

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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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  Wrestling, Hollywood, Doe

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• A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.

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  Leader, Innovation, Generations

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• Mucken Singh works VERY hard on his brawler's physique!

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  Wrestling, Singh, Physique

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• In the early stages of innovation, your goal is to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.

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  Goal, Innovation, Stage

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• Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.

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  Solve, Crosswords, Innovators

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• Every leader needs to watch what teenagers or startup companies - or startup companies headed by teenagers - are doing today, because many of those behaviors will be mainstream behaviors tomorrow.

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  Teenager, Leader, Watches

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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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  Track, Important, Watches

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• 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.

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  Crush, Mistake, Team

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• In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

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  Innovation, Curiosity, Mind

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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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  Jobs, Two, Creating

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• In the strengthening the core job, a leader can draw on their past experiences. After all, in most cases they did the job of the people that are reporting to them! So they know when something is screwed up, they know the risks worth taking, and they know the corners to cut. But when they are creating the new, no one knows what the right answer is.

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  Jobs, Cutting, Past

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• Creating the new increasingly is more than 50 percent of a top leader's job.

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  Jobs, Creating, Leader

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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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  Mind, Beginners, Needs

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• When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.

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  Winning, People, Sides

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• I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.

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  Heart, Winning, Mind

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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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  Mistake, Thinking, Hindsight

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• Avoiding along some dimensions is easy. Create organization space and bring in some new talent so the innate cultural resistance is less material. Unfortunately, it's rarely that easy.

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  Organization, Space, Resistance

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• 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.

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  Skills, Choices, Way

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• I feel for today's leaders. I really do. They got to where they are by doing a series of jobs exceptionally well. And that doesn't help them at all with the challenges they now face.

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  Jobs, Leader, Challenges

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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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  Needs, Facts, Sometimes

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• Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much money to learn.

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  Long, Labs, Too Much

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• 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.

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  Unique, Thinking, Understanding

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• So many people tell me that they aren't creative or they aren't innovative, and it's just not true.

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  People, Creative, Innovative

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• I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.

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  Thinking, People, Innovation

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• Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation.

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  Errors, Ideas, Trial And Error

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