Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles. — Scott D. Anthony Business Copy Share Image
It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea. — Scott D. Anthony Documenting Copy Share Image
Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model. — Scott D. Anthony Business Copy Share Image
Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market. — Scott D. Anthony Disruption Copy Share Image
You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance. — Scott D. Anthony Decision Copy Share Image
Seeking chaos is at least one way to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle ambiguity. — Scott D. Anthony Ambiguity Copy Share Image
People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators. — Scott D. Anthony Country Copy Share Image
There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way. — Scott D. Anthony Belief Copy Share Image
I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be. — Scott D. Anthony Complicated Copy Share Image
When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side. — Scott D. Anthony Amazing things Copy Share Image
Anything that has low certainty or has a lot of impact should be tested early. — Scott D. Anthony Certainty Copy Share Image
The reality is sometimes markets don't exist for very good reasons. It might be that there isn't a deep customer need. Or… — Scott D. Anthony Barriers Copy Share Image
Now, I worry a bit about the TEDification of the world where style trumps substance, so hopefully you have a good blend… — Scott D. Anthony Bits Copy Share 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… — Scott D. Anthony Artifacts Copy Share Image
A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet. — Scott D. Anthony Cash Copy Share Image
The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies… — Scott D. Anthony Business Copy Share Image
We fool ourselves into thinking that the spreadsheets that capture our financial projections are something different than what they are. — Scott D. Anthony Capture Copy Share Image
The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good… — Scott D. Anthony Customers Copy Share Image
Avoiding along some dimensions is easy. Create organization space and bring in some new talent so the innate cultural resistance is less… — Scott D. Anthony Avoiding Copy Share Image
I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring… — Scott D. Anthony Ads Copy Share Image
First you document your idea. You should be comprehensive, but that doesn't mean you have to produce a doctoral thesis length plan.… — Scott D. Anthony Approach 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 Behavior 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… — Scott D. Anthony Answers Copy Share Image
People will try to copy what they can see, which is the final product or service, but it's much harder to see… — Scott D. Anthony Business 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 Communication Copy Share Image
It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a… — Scott D. Anthony Be good Copy Share Image
If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just… — Scott D. Anthony Answers Copy Share Image
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 Answers Copy Share Image
Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day! — Scott D. Anthony Doe Copy Share Image
Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility. — Scott D. Anthony Collaboration Copy Share 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 Advertising 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 Disruptive Copy Share Image
