In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
Bring different groups together internally, send them out to visit other companies, or bring in interesting speeches. Show that you love learning… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
The need to be thoughtful about experiment design is particularly acute within large companies, since some of the behaviors, such as having… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Every leader needs to watch what teenagers or startup companies - or startup companies headed by teenagers - are doing today, because many of… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
In the strengthening the core job, a leader can draw on their past experiences. After all, in most cases they did the job of… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share 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… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of humility to recognize you have made a wrong turn on the road to successful innovation, but better to… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Creating a new business from scratch is hard, but executives of incumbents have the dual challenge of creating new businesses while simultaneously staving off… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
Make sure that you take the time to think about how other companies might respond to your idea, both those companies already in the… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
