Anything that has low certainty or has a lot of impact should be tested early. — Scott D. Anthony Certainty 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
I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be. — Scott D. Anthony 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
People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators. — Scott D. Anthony Country 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
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
Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market. — Scott D. Anthony Disruption Copy Share Image
Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
You can always figure out how to deliver things in somewhat controlled situations, but when you start to get into the reality… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
The curious company studies the anomalies or the unexpected findings. The company that isn't curious ignores them or punishes people who don't… — Scott D. Anthony Anomalies 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… — 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… — Scott D. Anthony Business Copy Share Image
I use the term "fool's gold white space" to highlight a common problem for innovation. People see a market that doesn't exist,… — Scott D. Anthony 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 Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is to embrace the idea of spurring creativity by letting hundreds of flowers bloom. I've… — Scott D. Anthony Biggest mistake 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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Creating the new increasingly is more than 50 percent of a top leader's job. — Scott D. Anthony Creating Copy Share Image
What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Some people who were central to former success aren't the right people for your future success. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things. — Scott D. Anthony Building confidence Copy Share Image
Every great idea emerges out of a process of trial-and-error experimentation. — Scott D. Anthony Adversity Copy Share Image
I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking. — 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
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
Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day! — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility. — Scott D. Anthony Collaboration Copy Share Image
Not only do innovators have to deal with all of the fundamental challenges of innovation, they have to do so in an… — Scott D. Anthony Challenges 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 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 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
A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet. — Scott D. Anthony 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 Copy Share Image
