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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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I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth.

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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…

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You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well.

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It takes a great deal of humility to recognize you have made a wrong turn on the road to successful innovation, but better to…

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“Creating a new business from scratch is hard, but executives of incumbents have the dual challenge of creating new businesses while simultaneously staving off…

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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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